Celestial hemisphere:  Southern  ·  Constellation: Scorpius (Sco)  ·  Contains:  1 b Sco  ·  12 c01 Sco  ·  12.68  ·  12.90  ·  13 c02 Sco  ·  13.49  ·  19 omi Sco  ·  2 A Sco  ·  20 Sco)  ·  20 sig Sco  ·  21 Sco)  ·  21 alf Sco  ·  23 Sco)  ·  23 tau Sco  ·  24 Oph  ·  24 Sco  ·  25 Sco  ·  26 Oph  ·  3 Sco  ·  36 A Oph  ·  4 Sco  ·  4 psi Oph  ·  42 Oph)  ·  42 tet Oph  ·  5 Sco)  ·  5 rho Oph  ·  5 rho Sco  ·  6 Sco)  ·  6 pi. Sco  ·  7 Oph  ·  And 892 more.
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Rho Ophiuchi with a Benro Polaris, Oamaruastro
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Rho Ophiuchi with a Benro Polaris

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Rho Ophiuchi with a Benro Polaris

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I bought the Benro Polaris smart tripod head when it came out on Kickstarter a few years ago, thinking it would solve my 'wanting to shoot astro but now wanting to go all the way to buying a proper tracking head and learning to polar align' thing. In the end, it took so long to arrive that I ended up buying not one but several "proper" tracking mounts, and when it finally did show up it was rather buggy and the results were not usable for astro imagery. But they have ironed out a lot of those bugs and now it's actually pretty reliable, so I decided to use it last night to shoot Rho Ophiuchi's colourful dust lanes, and I'm really pleased with the result!

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Rho Ophiuchi with a Benro Polaris, Oamaruastro