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first light with the new SW Quattro from FLO courtesy from the wife for i havent posted in a while as i have not been to well thanks to james cook im doing much better anyway here's the image. 1 hour each of LRGB at 300 seconds per sub 3 hours of HA at 600 seconds per sub atik 383l mono efw2 with baader fiters SW Quattro 10s with aplanatic cc all on the SW AZEQ6-GT thanks for looking and all CC welcome

this is a beaut Richard plenty of dust in there

you will get pin sharp stars at the edge if you drop the f-ratio down i would get the same effect with the canon 50mm f1.8 but when i dropped it to f7.1 that sorted it out, so you just need to experiment to find the sweet spot on your lens

now thats just stunning Sara the detail and the colour

well done to all and a great set of images

thats a beauty Rob

sorry Adam it is just 1 red at 300 second - 1 green at 300 second and 1 blue at 300 second and then combined in photoshop exposure there is no HA or OIII in it, and the other is just a single 900 sec exposure from the eos 1100D (the top image is the eos)

hi Adam nice picture just thought i would let you know that the 1100d is a single sub and the atik is 3 single subs combined r-g-b no processing was done to either.

i would not go for a dslr and go for the dedicated ccd/cmos as i went down that road my self but i didn't have the dslr modded as i use it for daytime photography. i now have the atik 383l+ mono and it is so much easier to use in AP than a dslr even if you onl get a HA filter to start with. you mention the celestron nightscape 8300 ,that is the same chip as the atik 383l but the nightscape only go's down to -20 ambient but the atik go's to -40 ambient i dont know anything about the nightscape aprt from the specs online but for £24 more i would go for the atik i have had mine for over 2 years and its a superb camera. you cant really compare a dslr to an astro ccd/cmos camera but here is a comparison any way. the first is a single 900 second exposure from the eos 1100D not modified unprocessed taken in 2014 the second is 3 x 300 second exposures 1 red - 1 green - 1 blue (dss to align and photoshop to combine) apart from that unprocessed taken 2015

some blooming great images up there well done to you all. i don't know where the rest of you get your skies from but i need some, its been a terrible year. i struggled to get 5 let alone complete them lol but here they are.

some awesome pictures so far peeps now for my go lol Messier 31 the Andromeda galaxy and friends Messier 1 the Crab nebula Messier's 42 & 43 the Orion nebula NGC 281 the Pac-Man nebula NGC 2174 the Monkey head nebula hope you like

very nice image Simmo

lovely image and what a banner this would be nice one Rob