Ruwandera

I received a wonderful telescope as an addition of tools to add to my photographic device collection. Of course as is usual with these types of devices, we had cloud cover for the first week, so it was use really as a terrestrial “super duper” zoom lens. This was when I discovered that the focal length of my Camera and the Telescope, did not quite meet and therefore any photos I attempted to make were always blurry and out of focus. After a lot f helpful comments from people I ended up using a Barlow Lens and attaching it to the "T-Adapter" and am now able to focus correctly, but at 2X the zoom. This is great for terrestrial objects as taking pictures of static items is fine as they are static, BUT, when you start trying to capture the stars, moon and planets, the earth rotates and any long exposure times (even a few seconds), is shown in your photo. Any stars look like lines of light - rather like taking a picture of a fast moving car at night. To resolve this issue the telescope must be fitted with a tracking motor which will rotate the trajectory of the telescope to counteract the motion of the earth, so as the earth rotates east, so the motor will rotate the telescope in a westerly direction. This way when you take time exposed pictures of the night sky, you should not see any movement in the stars. Well after almost 2 months of this being on order, the motor finally arrived. I have attached to the telescope, and now waiting for a cloudless night so I can test it out( so look out for a few pictures to come shortly of the celestial sky)