My 5th time trying to image a seemingly easy target with something being off… This time I must have nudged the lens out of focus slightly and there was some dew forming on the lens that I hadn’t noticed. This hobby sure has a steep learning curve!
Still, decided to not throw away the whole attempt and did a quick processing. It’s about 45 minutes worth of 30 sec exposures at 500mm f6.3.
Feedback appreciated!
I’m using a stock Sony a6000. Light, cheap, decent low light performance. I’ll probably dip my toes into modifying some cheap dslr for astro before moving on to a dedicated astronomy camera in the future.
The lens is the newish TTArtisan 500mm f6.3. It costs less than pretty much anything with that kind of reach and is decent enough, though I see myself selling it in the future and getting a triplet refractor and a 6" newtonian astrograph.