LMC and surrounding area

I got my mount back after the belt upgrade and tried the mount out. This was taken with quite a lot of moon light, such a lot of nebula's in this area. Don't even try to count the stars in this shot the number is staggering.

This is a two shot vertical panorama taken by the Nikon 300mm F4 D lens and also take on Auto focus using ZWOEAF and belt. I had to rethink the formula to work out focus for a telescope and try and fit it to a lens. the normal step size was suppose to be 125 but I cut the step size to 40 and got auto focus to work.

The mount is so much more sensitive I have had to learn how to balance again its so sensitive you have to balance with all heads loose to get perfect balance. also guiding had to be re set all the settings had to be fixed up again a lot of it turned out to be getting balance right.

In all was a very worth while upgrade can recommend it and thanks for Brendan Mitchell help to get guiding back up and running. Next it will be ED80's turn, the net result of up grade and auto focus the results look very promising.

Stay cool and enjoy Christmas with your families.

ZWOASI071MC -10c 105 shots per panel 450 secs, over 4 night just after full moon.

ZWOEAF with belt ,

Optolong LeNhance filter In filter draw,

Nikon 300MM F4 D Lens,

Skywatcher NEQ 6 Pro Hypertuned

Guided PHD2, SGP

Pixinsight, Ps & Lr.

Done