Capturing the splendours of the night sky is one of the most rewarding aspects of astronomy, and it's available to anyone with a camera or smartphone coupled to a telescope. However, to achieve the highly detailed photos of deep-sky targets you'll regularly see submitted to our Gallery, the mount of choice is invariably an equatorial. But here we're going to show what can be achieved with a Go-To altazimuth mount, more normally used for imaging the Solar System and our Moon. The results may surprise you!
“The good news is that several factors in the last few years have helped Go-To altaz systems overcome their limitations when it comes to imaging the deep sky”
Traditionally, capturing deep-sky objects like nebulae and galaxies requires long-exposure images, and to facilitate this an equatorial mount is the ideal choice. Equatorial mounts have one axis aligned with the celestial pole,
