After driving 3 hours to a Bortle 2 site, I setup my gear and was planning on staying the whole night imaging targets. Since this was my first planned all-night imaging session, I never expected that my imaging would come to a halt an hour into my first object. As I was inspecting the subs, […]
Monthly Archives: September 2016
Celestron 6″ Newtonian first light
After putting on my new C6N on the AVX mount, I set out to a Bortle 4 area around Wassaga Beach for some astrophotography, mainly to see the difference from the achromatic refractor I used previously. This images were also shot with a 60 second exposure to limit tracking errors due to periodic error and […]
Splitting double stars
I haven’t done much visual since getting my gear, but one of the few things you can do in a light polluted city, is find some double stars. One of the most prominent ones is the Albireo system – a double star designated Beta Cygni. Taken with a Celestron 6″ Newtonian, it shows a beautiful […]
Bortle 2 trip to Nirvana
Decided to take a trip to one of the darkest places in southern Ontario. Nirvana AKA Irvine Lake Strip is a Bortle 2 area just north of Bon Echo Provinical Park. I setup my Orion ST80 on an AVX mount with a Nikon D3200 camera. All images were tracked for around 60 seconds each, some […]
A special moment
Captured my first deep space object (dso). This was a very memorable moment. I had the DSLR connected to my Orion ST80 as I was going through the alignment procedure. Obviously with the camera live-view display, it was not possible to see anything but bright stars. But after I calibrated the mount with 2 bright […]
Connecting DSLR to Telescope
In order to connect your DSLR to a telescope, you typically need two adapters: T-Ring (Nikon/Canon specific) 1.25″ or 2″ adapter (depending on the drawtube size of your focuser) I purchased this set, which includes both, along with an extension tube that sometimes is necessary to extend the focal plane, in order for the camera […]