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Nice start. I do like a widescreen image.

Great start Ciarán. Given the quality of your dslr images i'm looking forward to seeing what you can do with the mono.

Wonderful👍

I managed to get a couple of clear nights last weekend in the south of Ireland. Conditions were poor with high cloud at times but nice to get anything at all. I'm hoping to start my Autumn/Winter project soon so even though this needs more time i doubt i'll get round to adding to it. Ldn 673 is a dark nebula of dust and gas in the constellation of Aquila. This molecular cloud is massive around 67 trillion kms across, and it is between 300-600 light years from Earth. LDN 673 lies in front of the larger Aquila Rift that is part of the Great Rift in the Milky Way stretching from Centaurus to Cygnus. Taken with my Asi2600mc through a Tak Epsilon 130, 5.5 hrs in 180 second subs Mounted on an AzEq6 Captured with SGPro, satcked in APP, processed in APP, PI and PS. Richard.

That's a great first narrowband. Well done.

Very nice.

Given the quality of those, i look forward to seeing what you can get with your new mono. What did you go for?

Thanks Ian

You did well to find an appropriate emoji Thanks Tom, It's a photogenic target. Thanks Mark, worked hard on the stars. I might start taking shorter exposures in the future for enhanced star colour as the blue cores are blown out.

Love the dark stuff👍

I used 1.25 filters with an Epsilon at f3.3 and a Samyang 135 F2 without issue. You should be fine at f5. Richard.

Thanks Mark.👍 Glad you like it, thanks James.

Thanks, i must get out mine and take a look. Thanks Hals. Most of my attention when processing went on the stars. Thanks Steve, this is a beautiful cluster that i feel should be a more popular target.

With the moon about and still at 85% a cluster was the way to go. I'm still struggling with tilt or collimation in my system stars at the edges are poor. Still given the conditions and short integration time I think it came out rather well. 60 180 second subs at gain 0 and -10C Asi 2600mc through a Tak Epsilon 130, mounted on an AzEq6 Captured using Sgpro, processed in APP, PI and PS. Richard. Jpg for slower connections

I found a huge improvement in the final image using a similar filter by splitting the channels, process the red(ha) then the green and blue(oiii), recombine.

Very striking image with some great detail.

Very nice especially the veil. Did you split the ha and oiii prior to processing?

🤣 come on over to the dark side. The new 16 bit bsi sensors are supposed to be even better than the 367c.

They're all fantastic natural looking images.

Super image Steve. Agreed and it's great to hear that interest in astronomy has increased over the last few months. Suppliers saying demand is like Christmas time.

Thanks Mike.

Thanks everyone for the response. Would space and storage be an issue with a Dob? Good call. I can pass on my copy to him.

I've been asked by a friend to recommend a scope for visual use. Budget would be £500. Secondhand would be an option too. Would a good set of binoculars be the way to go? Regards, Richard.

The Qhy 268c has it so i think it would be safe to assume the m would also have it.

I just added a Zwo filter drawer to my rig and as always with new gear it throws up some challenges. The main challenge i found was getting to my 56.2mm backfocus. My Oag is 16mm, the drawer is 21, 2mm for m58 to m48 adapter, and the camera is 17.5. My filters are 1.1mm so that brings me to about 56.5 which would be bang on what i have. It got me thinking though that i have another piece of glass that's also 1.1mm thick in the camera itself. Should this be considered when calculating backfocus? Richard.