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Playing around with my travel gear, cdavmd
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Playing around with my travel gear

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Playing around with my travel gear

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Just fooling around with my travel gear. I've been using a sky adventurer for about 5 years with a Zenithstar 61 and Canon cameras. I recently picked up an ASIAIR PRO and mounted it on this simple system. Polar aligning much easier now and this also added auto guiding to the setup.

This is just 5 x 120 sec exposures of the eagle nebula region just to see how it did. The polar aligning error was about 2 arcmin and yet I the stars are reasonable for 2 minute exposures at a 360 focal length. Quite encouraging for this simply little mount.

Looking forward to see what it can do under truly dark skies and more effort in setting up.

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Playing around with my travel gear, cdavmd

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