CCD First Light - Flaming Star

[DanL]

Hi,

Managed to get first light with my G2-8300 last night.

12 subs at 1800s using Astrodon Ha 3nm (I don't have any other filters yet!!)

Image is uncropped and stacked/processed using PixInsight.

My eyes are probably not as experienced or critical as many others here so please let me know if there is something obviously wrong. Personally, I think the focus could be a touch sharper but I was very happy with it as a first go - particularly using 30 minute exposures!

All the best,

Dan

[xtreemchaos]

and you should be happy ,thats a outstanding firstlight mate, you have caught some lovely detail.well done. thanks for sharing,charl.

[MarsG76]

That is an excellent image...

[Stu1976j]

Cracking image there, 

[DanL]

Thank you. Next step is to get an OIII filter and try some bi-colour 

[laudropb]

Great first image.

[gorann]

I would be extremely happy with that one!

I am still waiting to get a few clear night in a row to start using the mono CCD (Atik 460) I bought this summer (when the sky was too light and I comforted myself with astro-shopping for the winter). So far I have only had the odd clear night and then I decided to go for the safety of my DSLR. I am also worrying a bit about the focusing on the CCD. It is so easy with the 10x zoom on the DSLR screen. How did you do your focusing?

[DanL]

I used a Bhatinov mask and SGP's focus module to take repeat exposures of a region-of-interest with the camera set to bin 2x2 and 10 second exposures