It's Official.

[Daniel-K]

yesterday i made a near 600 mile round trip to drop off probably the best scope i would ever own. due to family and work it had to go as it was not getting used. 

the idea is to have a small imaging rig that i can use from home.

heres my new toys. Atik 414EX paired with a RC6 and starlight  

 

now just need to find a mount and im ready. hoping to be all kitted out for SGL.

Dan 

 

 

[Chris]

All looks brand spanking new Dan. Have you got a reducer sorted out for it, or are you going to start out @f/9?

[Daniel-K]

i want to try F9 first chirs after all i bought it for the FL to get up close  F9 isnt really that slow is it lol  im hoping to get some good globs in the spring/summer. desperate to get a imgae of m81 on this chip.

[Chris]

I look forward to seeing M81 on the that chip also  I think Olly once said something along the lines of: it doesn't matter about f/ratio as long as you get all you want on the chip. I'm not exactly sure it was said like that, but it was something like that lol

[Daniel-K]

i used that FoV calculator you posted a few days ago and it works out sweet at F9 most galaxies fit on and im sure i can lear  how to mosaic on the bigger ones using EQmosiac.

i think read that last week regarding Olly.

 

[Chris]

I used to really like playing around with 12Dstring when I was able to image. It's great fun plugging in different cameras, scopes and object, then seeing what FOV and Arc seconds come out at the end  

[johnrt]

Looks fantastic Dan, all shiny new and ready to go. Looking forward to seeing some images from you from one 6"RC fan to another

[Daniel-K]

8 hours ago, johnrt said:

Looks fantastic Dan, all shiny new and ready to go. Looking forward to seeing some images from you from one 6"RC fan to another

it was a long trip yesterday lucky as all the motorways where clear. even the m25 on the way back was fast flowing 

[RobertI]

Looking forward to seeing what you can do with the RC6 Dan. I use one for EAA/VA with a Lodestar camera which is a very different kind of imaging to what you will be doing but I have been very happy with the results. I have used the scope at F9 to image small planetaries like the Catseye Nebula and found that anything longer than one second was too long! So I guess it's just a case of choosing the right targets at F9. Anyway good luck.