Thursday, August 11, 2011

LX200, DSLR and Albireo

After my experiments with the LX200 and MallinCam, I decided that I had to break out something that could capture color.  My DSLR.  Problem is, long exposures on the LX200 with its alt-az fork mount, would (relatively) quickly result in stair trailing when capturing the faint fuzzies.

So, the answer was to go for the real bright objects, stars.  Short exposure and I still get some color!

Albireo - double star
As it turns out, the brighter yellow star in this pair is itself part of another binary system!

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