ScotiaAstro

Awesome pics and info guys! Thanks for sharing! Have fun and look forward to seeing some items on FLO website soon!

Well done and many congrats to all of the winners!

It was a fun challenge and looking forward to the next one!

Hope everyone has a lovely weekend!

Here's my rendition of this lovely piece of our night sky and thanks to Grant and the FLO team for providing some wonderful data to work with!

This was edited in Pixinsight entirely with the following workflow and hope you all like it:

Dynamic Crop all images to same dimensions

Ran GraXpert through Pixinsight Toolbox on all images

Ran BlurXterminator on all images

Ran NoiseXterminator on all images at 0.60 Denoise and 0.15 Detail

Ran a basic Histogram Stretch 

Ran LRGB Combination with HSHO settings to retain some of the Green because I like to see some in my image

Ran Correct Magenta Stars Utility 

Ran Clone for Starless Tool at Star Reduction Method 3 with StarXterminator

Removed Stars with StarXterminator

Slight Curves adjustment for contrast boost

Worked with various Colour Mask tools to bring out more details with curves

SCNR to take some green elements out

Another run of NoiseXterminator at 0.40 and 0.15 Detail

Ran Dark Structure Enhance Utility

Added Stars back to Image

Best of luck to all of the entries and clear skies to you all! 

Steve
 

Thanks very much for your reply mate and apologies, I've busy revisited my thread and seen you'd replied! Appreciate the info and sharing your experiences with the Esatto 3!

Yes, I think I'll just pull the trigger on this one and get it fitted...cheers for taking the time to respond and best wishes to you!

Steve 

That's an awesome pic, nice job! 

Those Sigma 1.4 Arts are fantastic, I've got the 24mm and its brilliant! 

Hey folks,

I'm considering completely replacing the stock focuser on my Esprit 100 and wondered if anyone had used the Primaluce Esatto 3 with it? 

I'm using ZWO EAFs and Pegasus and Celestron auto-focusers on my other scopes, so have experience with those, but my Esprit stock focuser is starting to show its age and I want to replace the whole unit (I got it second hand)...but the optics are still pristine and giving me great results!

Be interested in anyone's experience or if you've used any other replacement focusers with your Esprit 100?

Thanks and have a great weekend,

Steve

Great tip! Thanks for sharing!!