First attempt at using the iOptron SkyTracker, a motorised mount. All pictures taken with a Canon 7D on a Manfrotto tripod. Aligning the SkyTracker with the Pole Star is easy and quick, and focussing is a doddle with the Android app DSLR Controller.
This is the moon through a 300mm lens.
And this is Orion’s Belt (the three stars in a row) with the Orion Nebula below, a 2 minute exposure at ISO400 with a 55mm lens. Processed in Photodesk to reduce light pollution and moonlight (it was just past full) and to subtract a dark field to get rid of hot pixels. The tracking was excellent, but Phobos the cat bumped the tripod halfway through 🙂 The faintest stars here are magnitude 9.5.
