Posted: May 07, 2017 9:09 pm
- Frozen Lightening
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A 5 minute tracked shot of Ursa Major. High thin clouds. A firefly very near my iPhone. Taken Friday before midnight.
- A Small Flash
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Another tracked shot of Ursa Major, but with a sparkling litte meteor. To the eye this looked like a flash with no trail but the phone caught the slightest hints. I suppose this is a small bolide I can add to my collection.
My home brew barn door tracker is/was still running a little slow, so I brought the Arduino back inside and reprogramed it to run another 1% faster. Tonight, even with the waxing moon I hope to test my little Arduino tracker again. Last night I zoomed in the maximum allowed in NightCap Pro of 8X and took two shots of an eastern star. One shot with, and one without, tracking. While the Arduino was still running slow it wasn't bad. The good part is that my polar alignment seems really close as the trailing in both the tracked and non tracked trails follow the exact same arc.