NGC 7000 / NGC 6992 from last night

[Roy]

Hello all,

I managed to get out last night for a couple of hours which was nice and grabbed a couple of images

Tracking wasn't great and focusing could have been better but at least it didn't rain

[dazza1639]

A couple of crackers there Roy. Keep it up mate.

Darren

[CELESCOPE]

Hey , go to bed Roy, you will wear yourself outmate ehehheheh , very nice , especially the network one , one of my favs is that one ,

keep them coming Roy

Rog

[SteelRat]

REAL nice stuff Roy 8) Looks like the sygnus is up at last eh? Lower wing is still behind our willow 'til quite late in the morning - another month or so though and; Veil here we come!

Great pics.

[geppetto]

Very nice Roy 8)

What gear did you use to take them?

[Roy]

Sorry Philip, I should have said,

WO66SD

Guided with C9.25 and Atik-2HS

Captured with SXV-M7

Astronomic Ha filter

As I mentioned above, I'm not all that happy guiding with the C9.25 so I think I'm going to start using my ED80 instead.

Before I started using the Celestron I used an ED80 and easily managed to get 30 and 40 min exposures so I think I'll box up the C9.25 and get back to a widefield setup and see how I get on.

[Kaptain Klevtsov]

Lovely Roy. Nice to see those summer beauties coming back.

I WILL get the veil this year!

Captain Chaos

[barkis]

Two more beauties to drool over.

Great imaging Roy.

Ron.

[MikeD]

Great work Roy.

[legion48]

Hello all,

I managed to get out last night for a couple of hours which was nice and grabbed a couple of images ....

You really must get out more mate, if you're going to produce images this good.

[MartinB]

Excellent Roy. Interested to hear about your experience guiding with the C9.25. Any thoughts on why that is?

[Roy]

Hi ya Martin,

To answer your question, I don't really know why I'm not having much luck with it, it may just be down to the FL of the scope and the FOV that gives but guide stars are not exactly in abundance if you know what I mean.

I'm not very good with the technical stuff, I'm more of a point shoot and hope for the best sort of bloke.

I used to use a cheap Antares 90mm refractor as a guidescope and that worked like a charm and I was able to achieve exposures of up to 30 Min's without to many problems which is why I'm swapping the C9.25 for the ED80.

To be honest I've only had the C9.25 for a short while but I'm not really getting on with, I kind of wish I'd bought A Nice 4" APO instead but that's always the way isn't it.

[MartinB]

Have you thought about a F/R with the C9.25. Your camera would probably be ok with the Meade 3.3 reducer cos the chip isn't too big. That would be one fast scope with a very handy focal length.

[Roy]

Hi Martin,

That would be one option, I haven't tried it yet but I do have a 3.3 reducer but I need another sct to 2" adapter

I did have one on order from a well known retailer but that's another story