Astrobug

Lovely!

Thx to the great job done by Miguel we are ready for clear skies!

Go for 2inch filters, it will only hurts once

Im using the 2600mm on a Newton 200 f5  and a friend of mine on a c9 with a focal reducer. We did both m81 last winter. On the c9 your could still see some extra details. Under the belgium sky I would think the sweet spot on good nights is around 1300mm FL

1 hour ago, johnturley said:

I thought of getting one for my Esprit, but was put off because apparently when using one, it won't fully illuminate the field of a full frame sensor, the 44mm imaging circle being reduced by  0.77x to 34mm. 

John 

The plan is to use it with the zwo 2600mm , 33mm will do the job but no pictures to find with these small pixels. You use it with your 6D?

Any users around using the reducer in the esprit 150? There is not much info around.

thx

2 hours ago, Starflyer said:

NINA has everything and much more than SGP, the development is fast paced, the community is super fast to respond to queries on Discord and it's free.  I was a long time user of SGP until last year, the lack of or very slow development and poor stability made me try NINA and it's changed my imaging.

You are reading my mind

Getting back on this old post, is there anything usefull with the new version 4.2+?

2nd pier is in  place from Uniwersal .

Damn nice place to spend our nights!

Sure I'm happy with the outcome.  About the spikes, it is a newton with curved spiders. They are shorter but thicker. Star reduction is next on the doto list

This is an integration from 2022-2023.

For the full resolution click on the 1st image for the flickr link, enjoy

ASI 2600MM pro
Lum 654 x 60 sec
RGB 3 x 87 x 120 sec
Ha 31 x 300 sec
Newton CFF 200 F5
Avalon Linear & autoguiding
Software SGPro, EQ mod, PI & PS CS6.

Astronomiks

1st image of 2022. Lets hope on more!

ASI 1600MM pro
Ha 53 x 300 sec
Newton CFF 200 F5
Avalon Linear & autoguiding
Software SGPro, EQ mod, PI & PS CS6.

Click on image for the full

The result of the good weather of this week, NGC7023

Click on the image for the full.

ASI 1600MM pro
Lum 750 x 60 sec
RGB 3 x 80 x 120 sec
Newton CFF 200 F5
Avalon Linear & autoguiding
Software SGPro, EQ mod, PI & PS CS6.

With the lack of good weather I have spend a lot of time in reading stuff about processing and reprocessing and ended up with a new version of M51.

This is data from nearly 1 year ago.

 ASI 1600MM pro
Lum 720 x 60 sec
RGB 3 x 200 x 60 sec
Newton CFF 200 F5
Avalon Linear & autoguiding
Software SGPro, EQ mod, PI & PS CS6.

4 hours ago, MartinB said:

That is a beautiful m101.  I would be interested to see what equipment was used and capture details.

I added the data.

This is a rework of m101 from 2020 and 2019

Click on the image for the full

M101 LRGB
ASI 1600MM pro
Lum 900 x 60 sec
RGB 3 x 240 x 60 sec
Newton CFF 200 F5
Avalon Linear & autoguiding
Software SGPro, EQ mod, PI & PS CS6.

You will never have a full frame reducer for an esprit. It is 34 = 44x0.77. For the price it is a good deal. If the stars are fine in the corners i don´t see an issue. Good job SW.

Little update by adding some sharpness to the image.  See 1st post. Best to see in full resolution. 

This one is reworked to something better

First picture after the summer.

It was about time

ASI 1600MM pro
H-alpha (6nm) 116 x 300 sec
OIII (6nm) 55 x 300 sec
SII (6nm) 55 x 300 sec
RGB 3 x 17 x 60 sec
Esprit 100
Avalon Linear & autoguiding
Software APT, EQ mod & PS CS6.

Well done!

With the actual small pixels you are fine with 1m FL. More is oversampling most of the time. 

This is data from 2018 reworked. This time it worked to get the coulours from OIII & SII.

Click on the image for the full.

ASI 1600MM pro
H-alpha (6nm) 265 x 120 sec
OIII 97 (6nm) x 120 sec
SII 91(6nm) x 120 sec
Esprit 100
Avalon Linear & autoguiding
Software APT, EQ mod, Pix & PS CS6.