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Bought a cheap telescope mount for astro photos and it cost me a whole night of shooting
I got a no-name equatorial mount online for like $200 last month, thinking I could save cash for a better camera. Big mistake. Took it out to a dark spot near Red Rock, spent an hour getting polar alignment just right. The second I started a 3-minute exposure on the Orion Nebula, the whole thing started shaking. The gears were so bad it made star trails look like spaghetti. I lost that entire imaging session, about 4 hours of work, because the mount couldn't hold still. Now I have to save up for a real one anyway. Anyone have a solid mount they use for under $500 that actually works?
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diana69013d ago
My $150 Amazon mount tracked the moon just fine last week.
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joseph93213d ago
Tracking the moon is basically the training wheels of astrophotography. My first attempts at deep sky looked like someone smeared Vaseline on the lens. It's a whole different ball game.
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