7b8889 No.3
Seeing the Orion Nebula for the first time has been the biggest "wow" for me.
After getting a DSLR, I quickly put it onto a cheapy alt-az and pointed it in the general direction of the constellation. Took a 4" exposure @ 1600iso, stared at the blank screen waiting for the camera to load up the frame.
BAM there it is, all this shit just comes out of nowhere, millions more stars that were invisible to me, the nebula is huge, it was so awe-inspiring to know that this huge object is just sitting there in the sky and you just can't see it but it is there. Really amazing, really pretty.
Well the photos I have are terrible, I don't have a tracking solution as of yet but when I do they should be much better.
Another point, I have an equatorial mount with a motor, but can't seem to get it working. On it's own the motor does work. I do polar alignment, attach the motor, make sure everything is secured correctly but it simply does not track.
The photos are using a £40 70mm refractor and Nikon D3200, iso of 1600 and exposure of 4 seconds. The scope I've been having trouble with is a Celestron 130Eq-MD, a 130mm reflector.
7b8889 No.4
5692d3 No.30
~5 months till it's viewable again.
Here's a later one I did, has a weird noise errror
f9a370 No.32
Visiting again after a year, made progress