Beginning to rock now!
Found out that if the Celestron CG5-GT mount is two star aligned, follwed by two star for calibration, it is a real dead-eye dick!
It went straight to M57 Ring Nebula. Allowed me to start to wrestle with Deep Sky Stacker (DSS).
Also early success with M13 Globular Cluster in Hercules and M51 Whirlpool Galaxy in Cane Venatici.
Some issues though....
1. Cheap laser collimator from Ebay needed collimating ( then disassembly, repair and re collimating). This introduced me to the joys of collimating a reflector, reading all the posts on Stargazers Lounge and Cloudy Nights re collimating, how lasers are just a trap for the unwary (me) and Cheshire are the only way to go. Wait, that is laser collimators with barlows. No, wait...
I just used the laser, twiddle till it looks right and it seems ok. Life is too short. But I do collimate every time I set up.
Found out that if the Celestron CG5-GT mount is two star aligned, follwed by two star for calibration, it is a real dead-eye dick!
It went straight to M57 Ring Nebula. Allowed me to start to wrestle with Deep Sky Stacker (DSS).
Also early success with M13 Globular Cluster in Hercules and M51 Whirlpool Galaxy in Cane Venatici.
Some issues though....
1. Cheap laser collimator from Ebay needed collimating ( then disassembly, repair and re collimating). This introduced me to the joys of collimating a reflector, reading all the posts on Stargazers Lounge and Cloudy Nights re collimating, how lasers are just a trap for the unwary (me) and Cheshire are the only way to go. Wait, that is laser collimators with barlows. No, wait...
I just used the laser, twiddle till it looks right and it seems ok. Life is too short. But I do collimate every time I set up.
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