Observation by Neil Morrison: Lost in space

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Neil Morrison

Observer

Neil Morrison

Observed

2021 Jun 13 - 22:26

Uploaded

2021 Jun 14 - 20:39

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Constellation

Aquila

Field centre

RA: 19^h00^m
Dec: +17°17'
Position angle: -86°14'

Field size

0°57' × 0°38'

Equipment

Celestron C8 Reducer/Corrector F6.3 Sony 65a Slt Super polaris mount

Exposure

20Sec F6.3 ISO6400

Location

Crawley West Sussex

Target name

Intended to be Nova in Hercules

Title

Lost in space

About this image

Set up mount in early evening ready to carefully Polar align and changed tube rings used on 90 mm Refractor previous evening to Vixen Mounting Bar for C8. After watching BBC Sky at Night I re emerged into the Garden to precise Polar align and mount the C8 and Camera .Things started to go awry when trying to get Polaris in the Polar scope exactly in the Ring. All I achieved was the SP Head slipping in Altitude and a sharp poke in the eye from the Polar scope eye piece . Persevered in gathering gloom to re set all the Axes as well as possible . Then just pressed and hoped. Nothing visible in finder 6x30 and Live view not much help. Resulting images well I am unable to reconcile where I was pointing using World Wide Telescope Maps Never mind It proves there are a lot of Stars up there and the Negative Print of this frame will go into my learning curve file as Searching for Nova In Hercules. But lost in Space.

Files associated with this observation

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Mike Harlow, Callum Potter

Comments

Mike Harlow, 2021 Jun 15 - 07:42 UTC

Hi Neil, Looks like you were really close...keep trying, it will be worth it.

Mike

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