66mm Petzval First Light

[Grant]

I finally got chance to try out the 66mm scope observer petzval I brought from Gaz a few weeks ago

I tried it on a few things and was really really pleased with the quality of the views it gave, both visually and imaging. Its a beautiful bit of kit (now covered in finger marks ) superbly made and makes a great addition to my setup...

Heres M13:

10 x 45secs + 10 darks @ 45s + 10 bias

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M81 + M82

10 x 90s + 10 darks @ 90s

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Rather than starting another thread, heres a couple of moonies I took too, one shorter exposure to give a darker appearance, both through a revlation moon filter...

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I'm pretty pleased with this results, I also capture M57, M31 and M45 but the seeing was really poor and the moon was washing everything out so these weren't too great. All in all I think its a great little scope, ideal for some really nice widefield work, not really suited for the moon but not a bad attempt, really looking forward to playing with this some more in the future!

As always, I've uploaded all of my raws, so if anybody wants to have a play then please do I'm really not to great at this processing lark but getting there slowly! Here are the raws: http://iseestars.net/astro_raws/01-08-07/

Cheers,

Grant

[FLO]

Nice 8)

Particularly like the first pic of M13.

[Jamie]

Nicely done young man...

[anthony]

Impressive picutres all of them.

Focus looks pretty tight on the deep sky stuff

Anthony

[CELESCOPE]

lovely job Grant , your are certainly getting to grips with this imaging now .

Rog

[Kai]

The first M13 does it for me

[geppetto]

Great start with the little 66 Grant 8)

Love mine to bits, they are a great little workhorse scope and handsome too

[lunator]

Grant very good pics

The widefield around M13 looks the best

Cheers

Ian

[jonifive]

I'm with Ian, widefield M13 all the way.

I took my first astro photo through my 66 (Robs old one) two nights ago, and I can't wait to get out again. Great pics Grant.

Jonathen

[centroid]

A great start with the 'new toy', I can understand why you are pleased with the results. Very nice!!

BTW, what hole in the cloud do you live under?, it was wall-to-wall cloud here last night

Dave

[Grant]

Thanks everyone! Can't wait to play some more with it!

Dave, these were taken on Tuesday night but it took me all day yesterday to get them sorted to post Last night was reasonably clear here but the seeing was bad and the moon was high and bright so I didn't bother, to many nights recently I've been out to 4am so thought I better have an early one so I can actually do some work today!