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 […]
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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 […]