New Toy

My StarLapse came in today. Its a sweet piece of kit. Hoping the clouds clear out so I can try it out later tonight. Has sideral solar and 16 other rates from 3.5 deg/hr up to 240 deg/hr for timelapse panning. Handles more than one camera up to 30lbs and he is very conservative on his ratings. The tripod is the weak link I'm sure. Its only temporary I'm going to buy a geared head for the Induro. Much easier to get polar alignment with a geared head. With the BackyardEOS software I'm running you don't have to get perfect polar alignment with the scope. It will do drift align runs and tell you which way its off. Although the polar scope thats available is very nice its also 200 bucks :) I had one in my GM-8 mount its very accurate. Finally getting back to some astrophotography after having to sell all my stuff 15 years ago. I am going to have the t4i modified for astro use maybe put a cold finger in it as well. That is quite a hack so I'm not sure I want to get that involved. The astro conversion you can get done at several places.











Going to have many happy hours with this.



Griz