Orion Nebula from March 12th

Drift Alignment Completed

Managed to have a cloudless evening last night, so I was able to finish with the drift alignment.

Drift alignment basically is a procedure for aligning the axis of my telescope mount with the axis of the earth.

That way when I turn on the clock drive on the mount, the mount will keep the object that I have the telescope on centered in the eyepiece for as long as I want.

Did a little broadcasting of the moon, Jupiter, Saturn and the Orion Nebula last night. I had removed the stock ir (infrared) filter from the camera the other day to allow more of the colors that the stock filter blocks out.

The video and broadcasting portion of what I’m doing is fairly new to me, but it is coming along. Previously most of what I had done in my observatory consisted of taking photos with a dslr camera and just viewing through different eyepieces.

Drift Alignment

Worked on drift alignment last night. Weather was un-cooperative. Managed

to get the azimuth fairly well adjusted, but will have to try another evening to

get the elevation adjusted.

Orion Nebula

This image was taken from my live broadcast this evening

9.25″ sct @ f6.3 with samsung sdc-435 camera

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