[200 Motels]

What kind of scope do you have? I’ve got a Meade 10 inch GPS with a wedge. I really need a big guidescope and guide camera, try as I might, I can’t get perfect tracking with the wedge. But, I do have a focal reducer which helps. M42 is always a good reliable target, I hope to someday get some great long exposure shots, I shoot with a DSLR and my laptop

[dragnet2]

An LX200 Classic, 10" mounted on permanent 8" steel pier, sunk into about 2000 pounds of concrete.

Main camera is a Canon 40D.

We have tracking down pretty well up to approximately 10 minutes..If you're not familiar with drift alignment, google it and do it.

See post 37...We are fortunate enough to have the scope permanently mounted inside a small observatory, that we can operate via computer, remotely from the home.

Leaving the scope mounted and aligned and ready to go is great and allows near instant imaging/observing after throwing a few switches.

[dragnet2]

Shot the Eagle Nebula a couple of weeks ago...Unfortunately conditions were less than perfect.

And below is a close of the Eagle center, "Pillars of Creation" that Hubble made famous.

The height of the tallest pillar is approximately 24 trillion miles high or 4 light years long....lol