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I managed to grab about 5 hours (312x60sec) on M45 last night so a fairly decent start there. However, the polar alignment was WAY off using Sharpcap to the point I had to do it manually with the polar scope. Is it because I'm using such a short focal length at 135mm? (I think equiv is about 336mm o...

Thanks for the reply Robin. Coming from a CCD background when I used to image a while back, I was using my QSI583wsg with a 3nm Astrodon Ha filter and I was doing 15-20 min exposures. Seeing that I only need a few seconds just boggles my tiny mind. I'll give it a shot though! Ha! With only needing 3...

So I got the polar alignment working well, accurately aligned now. But I do have another question regarding exposure lenght. I live just outside Lincoln UK, in a place called Washingborough. My LP was measured around 6e/pixels/sec (or whatever the measurement is in). It's now telling me that my opti...

Hi Steve,

Yeah I think the ball head has some kind of panoramic base. It's the Manfrotto 496RC2? I'll take a look and see if I can get that working.

Thanks,
Phil.

Thanks Robin.

If it doesn't work it isn't the end of the world. I'll be upgrading within the next month or two to a better mount anyway I guess.

Phil

Good evening everyone, First time poster here. I've just bought an ASI533 to use on my astrotrac and I wanted to use Sharpcap to do an accurate polar alignment because the polarscope with the astrotrac is a pain (and I don't like lying on the floor to align). However, I'm a little bit lost as to how...