first light proper with atik, horsehead and pacman

[tony]

havent been on for a while so these are a few weeks old now

i've had a few teething problems regarding setup, mainly with phd but all sorted now.

first is horsehead from feb 18th, only managed 15 subs before the cloud rolled in guiding wasnt 100% hence the slightly egg shaped stars

15 x 600 ha

atik 314L+ on ed80

qhy5 finderguider

heq5 pro

artemis and phd.

and the pacman nebula, this was taken on 4th march, i'm quite pleased with this one, being only my 2nd proper attempt, just need more clear skies which at the moment are few and far between.

same set up as horsey but this is 29 x 6mins ha.

your comments not matter how bad are welcome

[tony]

and if someone could move me to the right place, just realised this is deepsky observing

[cotterless45]

Wow ! Is this a cunning plot to convert all us visual observers !

Nick.

[daz]

I managed to get in, move it and get out again before the Visual peeps noticed!!

[x6gas]

Nice images. You've lost some definition in the Pacman but I really like your horsey.

You might be able to sort out the eggy stars with the really simple method that Sparky mentions in this thread: http://stargazerslounge.com/topic/158421-m27-dumbell-at-28m-fl/page__hl__%20dumbell

[tony]

I managed to get in, move it and get out again before the Visual peeps noticed!!

thanks for that, note to self " check i'm in the right section first before posting"

[fondofchips]

Wow ! Is this a cunning plot to convert all us visual observers !

Nick.

Well spotted Nick, any mistake here could be expensive....

[ollypenrice]

I may be wrong but it looks to me as if your stellar distortions in the Horse image maybe from just one sub. Worth checking and excuse me if I'm wrong.

You've made a good start here.

Olly

[tony]

Thanks for that olly, will check that out when i have time