Oh, and I read somewhere that the 2 start alignment is better then the 3 star. Tried it and it worked pretty well on first try. Maybe just luck, or it's really better.
Because it was so quick, I thought about an object to take photos of: Andromeda! Setup, focusing... all went well. But then I could not take 30 seconds long pictures. All of them had stripes :-( I had to go down to 10 seconds. That sucks! Will take almost an hour to get 30 minutes of exposure time!!!
... so, I broke down and ordered the equatorial mount, the finder scope and the CCD camera. All will be shipped next week. That will be fun to setup and try out.
But I didn't take any flats and flat darks - which means I'll have to get up tomorrow morning at 5 and do that :-(
... of course, it was overcast in the morning :-)
Took flats later in the day and processed my images from Andromeda. Based on the initial pictures, I'm surprised what I got out:
I said this before, I really have to get better at the post processing...
NGC 129 did not turn out that well:
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