Quark Ha 30-5-15

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Clouds were about 50% in attendance but still managed to record a few avi's on Saturday afternoon.

The videos were about 30 sec each with 10% stacked in AS2. Decon in IMPPG and colour/curves  added in photoshop

This is the first time I'd used a focal reducer, a Meade .63 which needed a couple of adaptors making

to couple it all up securely.  The wider fov was nice but still relatively 'close up'.

Dave.

[David Smith]

Nice work Dave, some cracking images.

We got back too late to catch the Sun from home yesterday.

Just out of curiosity what is the connector between your Quark and your camera?

[dazzaa1966]

Fantastic images Dave. What equipment did you image with.

[Pete Presland]

Very nice set of images.

[sooot]

Lovely set you have there. Great detail in the proms

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Thank you for the comments.

@David  The connector is a tilt adaptor I've made to prevent newton rings on the ASI120mm.  The angle is set at about 6 degrees and

completely eliminated the rings. I am planning to reduce the angle to see at what point the rings appear again.

Since the tilt moves the camera off axis the adaptor is made with an opposite offset to put the chip back on to on the optical centre line.

The offset is only a millimetre or so, but I did it any way !  I still have some laying to do to get it just right and make a better job of the light proofing ! 

@Dazzza  The scope is a 80 TMB 600mm focal length with a Baader D-ERF mounted up front. This allows the reducer to go in front of the Quark.

The mount is a HEQ5

Cheers, Dave.

[slim80]

Amazing work Dave.Lovely images

[Space Cowboy]

Super images!

[michael.h.f.wilkinson]

Really nice images

[Davey-T]

Nice lot of detail .

Dave

[Dave Smith]

Excellent detail and great processing.

Dave

[Montana]

Wow!! some super images of the proms :)

Alexandra

[Luke]

Lovely images, Dave, looking forward to some more :laugh:

[Stardust]

the prom shot is great and the mono one has more detail to my eyes. I have found that sometimes with my own images