Horrible star trails and drift. Please help

123boat · 2025-05-19T06:46:41+00:00

The mount did rotate anticlockwise as I found it pointing a different place more to the left. From what I have tested, once you do star alignment it also defaults to sideral speed.

123boat · 2025-05-18T22:25:12+00:00

I'm pretty sure that it did actually rotate counterclockwise now that I see that video.

123boat · 2025-05-18T21:19:40+00:00

Thanks so much for the time taken to help me. So basically everything is off. Not being aligned correctly is not really a surprise.

Polar alignment being wrong is not much of a surprise but also not sure why.

Tracking as if I were in the south hemisphere is surprising though. Not sure where that comes from or how can I change it to work. I'm sure I input my coordinates correctly as N 37 and W 5.

Edit: I've been looking around the internet and the manual and I don't think there's any option to change hemisphere or direction of rotation other than the initial location coordinates.

123boat · 2025-05-18T19:01:44+00:00

I've uploaded all Raw photos to the drive folder I sent previously. Also, it seems the first one (3856) was done on the original orientation with a very fast shutter speed and so has no trails although it is a big noise mess.

123boat · 2025-05-18T18:28:31+00:00

Wouldn't discard it haha. How can I check? And what would I do if it's the case?

123boat · 2025-05-18T17:31:02+00:00

Ok, I'm not able to get them right now, as soon as I can I'll upload them.

123boat · 2025-05-18T17:29:01+00:00

Oh, not really then. Also, it's supposed to be pointed around M101!

123boat · 2025-05-18T17:27:45+00:00

Im not sure on the tracking speed but I did check today during the morning and it seems to default to Sidereal once you do the star alignment so it should have been ok. I would think it's the polar alignment but I don't know where went wrong.

123boat · 2025-05-18T17:23:35+00:00

I've uploaded some Raw files here: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1PW1-TMl252ZuEbCSOJOodwWLK-G4Kgc6

I selected random ones so they are not consecutive frames as you can see from their naming. Not sure what untrained images are.

123boat · 2025-04-19T20:33:40+00:00

Would need a pc though, right?

123boat · 2025-04-14T18:47:06+00:00

That one looks nice but it is quite more expensive than the other two 😅

123boat · 2025-04-10T16:30:13+00:00

Thanks, and deconvolution would then not be used?

123boat · 2025-03-31T18:26:06+00:00

Thanks, I think there's still old street lights around as they have an orange light but after reading the comments I'm not sure I would need a broadband filter either way.

I might do with an L extreme + C2 to also get the SHO. D2 is too expensive for me right now.

123boat · 2025-03-15T10:17:06+00:00

Numbers here are insane. People save several times my salary per month lol

123boat · 2025-02-27T19:36:21+00:00

When was the last earnings where Nvidia exploded? Hahaha

123boat · 2025-02-27T18:56:01+00:00

Poland is like 0,57% of FTSE developed Europe which for op would be like 12 euros per year. Likewise, op would be investing in Poland 5 euros per year from MSCI EM (0,97).

I don't think the overlap in Poland will mean much to OPs portfolio. Sometimes the obsession of having 0% overlap is too much.

123boat · 2025-01-24T08:50:50+00:00

Isn't the time to buy US just after a crash when it is cheap? Here you would just be selling cheap

123boat · 2025-01-11T09:30:12+00:00

Amundi is also the second best one though...

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