"Chris Taylor" wrote in
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The
mount will keep an object in the FOV for over an hour but for imaging
purposes the tracking's only good for about 8 to 11 seconds. This
means an increasingly large number of images to stack. Each image is
split into three files (one for each colour) and each file is about
1.25 Mb. I'm now trolling through over 3 Gig of files for the first
nights imaging!

Nice pic Chris.

Shouldn't you mount it on an eq wedge for long exposures, as although the
altaz mount cant hold position, it slowly twists relative to the universe
if running relative to the earth

(just a thought - the seller warned me it was no good for long
astrophotography; he forgot to tell me it wasn't much good for eyeballing
as well)

mike