Saturn Test - 08/07/2024
Hello! So uhh.. I started writing this about a month ago 😅 but stuff kept getting in the way.. Basically treat this as if it was about 30 days ago haha ----------------------- The other day I was taking exposures of the Whirlpool galaxy all night - trying out the new astrocam still :p Unfortunately I'm having some difficulties with the stacking.. Deep Sky Stacker insists on only stacking at most like 9 subs out of the over 200 that I've taken.. I'm not sure if anything will come out of that or if it's toast.. that happens sometimes! We go next :p However, at the end of the night - I noticed my favorite planet, Saturn, peeking over the line of trees! I hastily moved my whole setup around a few meters, without polar aligning or anything.. There was a problem though.. of course, I wanted to use my astrocam.. but I had the guidescope mounted! This meant that I had to either switch the astrocam places between the main scope and the guidescope, or hit it blind.. I tried the...