alexbb

On another note, on topic: I just bought yesterday a sh Celestron C6 from a local club colleague and I set it up along with the ST102 in the beginning, and then along with the 130P-DS. Side by side on the AZ-EQ5. In the beginning, they were mounted only for visual and the sky was cloudy, not even the moon was very visible. After a while the clouds wend away and the moon was lighting all the sky, but then it got pretty foggy. I saw some bright clusters, the scope kept its collimation during the bagpack transportation, perfect concentric circles. After about 2-3 o'clock, the sky cleared, only the moon keeping it bright. After observing with both scopes for a while, I decided to put the camera on the scope to show to my girlfriend what we could barely see before she went to bed, the sky being still foggy. M35, M36, M37, M38, all 20x10s lights, 20 darks, 20 flats, didn't care about bias. ISO3200 with the Canon 550D. And the moon at about 6 degrees over the horizon.

It's not against the rules to post a link from astrobin, not even from CN. I assume this is the one you were thinking of: http://www.astrobin.com/249467/B/ Very nice one!

Do these even count? Guide camera + the lens not attached yet. Not sure yet how to fix them.

+1 for the Jena Sonnar 135. You can check a quick attempt at Orion here: https://drive.google.com/open?id=0ByhJ_xuQxcnjTTA1dnZhUnpkdH https://drive.google.com/open?id=0ByhJ_xuQxcnjdFY4Z3FEaWs0YTg I could have processed them better, but anyways.. Both are from the same stack, just one is brightened more. They are a stack of about 50 subs @ 15s each, about 20 darks, 20 bias, 20 flats taken with a Canon 450D, ISO800 on a Skywatcher AZ Synscan. Regards, Alex