| Joined: | Mon Apr 2nd, 2012 |
| Location: | South Lakeland, UK |
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I made the mount for the DR-3 over the weekend but cloud prevented testing. This evening with totally clear skies I took it out and was able to test the finder, the threads which attach the finder to the camera eyepiece were damaged, that doesn't matter for me because I have made a slip on adaptor to fit it to the polar scope. I still need to fine tune the fit but essentially it works. I have now made an adaptor to allow me to hold a red LED in front of the Polar scope to light up the etched markings in the Polar scope to assist aligning the stars.
The forecast is for tomorrow and Wednesday nights to be clear skies, so with luck I will try to get some images tomorrow night. I will try the Nikkor 300mm f/2.8 too. If I can I will try to capture an image of the Orion nebula, the only possible issue may be the Moon because it's in the same area of sky as Orion at the moment. I might even be able to combine them in the same image.
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Robert.