SXVR-H694 first light on M101

[dmahon]

My new SXVR-H694 arrived today and the sky was clear - amazing.

Took a bit of setting up, as I've had to wait several months and managed to aquire a new mount and an OAG too, as well as an upgrade to Nebulosty 3, so everything needed setting up to play nicely, but got there in the end. Nebulosity 3 did something wierd and doubled the resolution, so I used something else and will play with Nebulosty again another day.

Unfortunatey I managed to pull a capacitor off the motherboard of my desktop machine, so I can't do any processing at the moment until a new one arrives on Monday. So, here is a 300 second luminance shot of M101, uncalibrated and unprocessed other than a couple of curves/levels.

[dmahon]

OK - added a couple of flats via DSS on my old laptop (slow).

Think I'm going to be happy with this camera.

[Ibbo!]

I will be watching with interest

nice start

Steve

[Gina]

That looks very good for a single sub

[Quatermass]

Very nice lots of detail in there as well which is a good thing as this is a faint one to image.