Well all the hard work has paid off. Here is a photo of the Pleiades.
After weeks of fully clouded skies days and nights… We had a clear night. And was I tired. I just went to bed.
I woke at about 4:30am, and went out and set up a reception experiement for weather satellite photos, and saw the sky was cool and clear…
So I brought all the equipment out to my back patio.. did a quick polar alignment with my red dot finder. Put the camera on and took a few test shots of a star.
It seemed to work for a 30 second photo… AND I focused by eye! The stars were so bright I could see them in the viewfinder.
And Oh Oh!.. There is Jupiter and to the left plain as day is the Pleiades, So I aimed the camera at it as best I could and took 12, 30 second shots… Stacked them… no calibration frames, cropped it and that’s what I got. Nice round stars!
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