spc900 lx modded images

[bottletopburly]

Has anyone any images taken with a lx modded spc900 just to see what the results are

[astromerlin]

Hi, Here's an image i did back in 2010 when I first started imaging DSO's.

This was my first guided image, I used a webcam/finderscope for guiding and the Skywatcher 250mm OTA with the LX modded SPC900 . Looking at those stars now, my guiding wasn't that successful and I found the main problem with my setup was image scale at F1200mm . I really needed to do M51 in a 4 panel mosaic. I have now moved to a DSLR for DSOs.

[bottletopburly]

Thats fantastic in my book well done

[astromerlin]

Thanks for your kind words, Have you LX modded your SPC yet?

[bottletopburly]

No not yet, thinking of it just wanted to see some results, would like a dslr but only got the eq5 mount so really lx mod would better suit for now purely on the weight side of things.

[JamesF]

I have one or two somewhere, though they're not as good as the one above. I'll see if I can dig them out. Personally if I only had one SPC900 then given the likely difficulty of obtaining a second should something go wrong I'd be loathe to LX mod it.

James

[JamesF]

This is M13 (in case you weren't sure

Taken using my ST120 on my EQ3-2, unguided. 55 exposures of ten seconds each stacked but otherwise unprocessed. I don't think the target choice does the scope any favours in terms of reducing CA...

James

[bottletopburly]

nice one cheers