chaoscarl
Polar alignment
While searching through Google maps looking for a good object facing north for a star trails composition. It dawned on me, I have something in my very own back-garden that not only points north, with an accurate polar alignment it points true north. So out I went and this is the result. I still wanted the use of my telescope being a very clear night with good seeing. So I light painted the scope, took 3 images. Then moved the camera back and up, centred Polaris and took a further 150x 60sec images for the star trails. I then combined the 2 in Photoshop. I thought it represents perfectly the work of an equatorial mount, and what it’s designed to do. Taken with a Canon 6D and Samyang 135 f2 lens @ f2.8
Polar alignment
While searching through Google maps looking for a good object facing north for a star trails composition. It dawned on me, I have something in my very own back-garden that not only points north, with an accurate polar alignment it points true north. So out I went and this is the result. I still wanted the use of my telescope being a very clear night with good seeing. So I light painted the scope, took 3 images. Then moved the camera back and up, centred Polaris and took a further 150x 60sec images for the star trails. I then combined the 2 in Photoshop. I thought it represents perfectly the work of an equatorial mount, and what it’s designed to do. Taken with a Canon 6D and Samyang 135 f2 lens @ f2.8