Here is the first astro photo I took using the Astra V2.1 tracker that I built. I’m using a 40mm lens and ten 30 second exposures (The max exposure time of my camera)… It seems to work nearly perfectly even though I aligned the mount using my iphone compass and bubble level. Today my external intervalometer comes and I’ll be able to test longer exposures with this lens and the tracker. Right now my 200mm lens is just too heavy for the tracker, I’ve ordered a finer lead screw for the tracker to see if that will help for that lens.
The bright star near the center is Altair, my favorite star. and I focused this manually — though my near and low light vision is pretty bad. Soon I’ll be testing a Bahtinov mask that I 3d printed to see if I can improve focusing.
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