Well it's been a long time between uses of my AstroTrac, last time being in
August, but I had another very successful night with it this weekend just gone.
Again it only took me about 10 minutes to setup and 5-10 minutes to polar align.
And only two trips to the car to pack the gear. And again I had no trailing in
any exposures I took, with the longest attempted being a few 4 minute exposures
on Orion.
Here's a few pictures from the night:
http://www.rogergroom.com/items/aswa_tammin_december_2010
There's a neat startrail one with the AT in it .. hapenned that the red "busy"
LED of the camera was illuminating the AT nicely.
I can't wait to get out there with the AT again, play around with more lenses
etc. This night just gone I only used my 50mm F/1.4 lens, which leaves so many
combiations yet to explore.
Enjoy.
Roger.
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