gthomas

Ordered a Skywatcher EQ AZ 6 GT mount and a power supply from FLO at 11:00 on Tuesday. By 15:00 the PSU was in the hands of FedEx. By 17:00 the mount was in the hands of FedEx. At 14:00 on Wednesday FedEx placed all 3 boxes in my hands. Brilliant service! Well done FLO & OVL and thank you very much.

Glyn Thomas

So many professional and amature astronomers were introduced to the subject by Sir Patrick. Sadly missed.

Now I am truly embarrassed

I some how thought it was Stan posting that image, sorry Qm.

[Exits, stage left]

That looks really good Stan. From my experience with 2244 careful processing will pull out a lot of the nebular from that. I was amazed what I got out of it, also unguided. Not got it to hand at present though.

Once I have the camera modded then a guiding mod based on QMs and your threads will be my next project

Popular place to live Stan

My understanding of the effect of the CLS was the same as yours. I did some structured testing of the CLS plus some imaging and at the end decided to wait until I had a modded camera. Once I send this 2nd body off for modding I will repeat the tests and compare the results.

Sorry QM, off topic I know

Great news austen, well done mate!

One thing that the guiding has highlighted from my point of view, I really haven't got dark skies at all Anything more than 5mins and I'm down to ISO200 or 400 max. Theres just to much skyglow on my southern horizon. I blame neraby towns of stowmarket / needham market. I have been looking at getting a 2nd DSLR to mod, but I think an astronomik CLS filter will be my next purchase. I could do 10min subs with my canon 200 lens even on the EQ3, its just the LP that's holding me back .....

stan

Stan, I'm just north of Bury St Edmunds so I have the same problem to the south. Plus a pub 200 yards to the west so I'm pretty much stuck with north and east.

I have just purchased a seconds 450D in order to have it modified. I tried the CLS filter on my unmodded 450D and the red channel is down to less than 25% of the signal without the filter. So my feeling is that the CLS is only going to be of any use with a modded camera.