Here’s the Crab Nebula. Not a breathtaking pic of what’s normally a pretty dramatic supernova remnant, but it’s a single 60 second exposure. The other nine exposures I took and hoped to combine had too much movement. I think I have a periodic glitch in my drive of about a minute. I have to throw out about half my 30s exposures, and almost all of my 1 minute exposures. So I gMuess I’ll be taking my drive apart again on the next full moon, and sticking to 30s exposures in the meantime.
The good news is the star haziness was mostly gone last night, so it was the sky, not the optics, that had the problem a few nights ago. Also, my lighted reticle eyepiece worked like a charm for drift aligning. Finally, the altitude adjuster that I jury-rigged worked well. I’ll post a picture of that soon. Crab Nebula in Taurus, 60 sec, ISO 1600, 1000mm f/10, cropped.
Scott's Sky Shots 