Tonight I set up my 8" Celestron SCT on my Parallax Instruments HD200C so that I could try using PemPro to drift align the mount.
It was an interesting adventure -- the graphs from PemPro are very sensitive. I was able to align the mount to the pole and take a few pictures, but it took most of the night. That was expected since this is the first time I have tried aligning using a CCD camera and software with my HD200C mount.
I'm hoping for a clear saturday night so I can take advantage of the alignment to shoot some good pictures tomorrow night. I was able to get a short color shot of M13 before going to bed at 5:00am. I am slowly learning how to optimize my equipment and technique.
We'll see what the rest of the weekend brings.
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