M67. An AzEQ6 outing

[MattJenko]

After playing about with a 10" dob as an imaging rig, it was nice to set up using my new AzEQ6 mount with my tried and trusted ED80 tonight. Using a new finderguider rather than a guidescope, things looked very nice indeed on a lovely clear night in Essex. Even the bonfire down the street calmed down in time.

M67. An open cluster which I actually did a year ago as well, which I thought was decent enough at the time, but this version is a serious step up from that. Whata a lovely mount the AzEQ6 is!

AzEQ6, Skywatcher ED80, Atik 414ex. 12 x 2 mins RGB.

[RobertI]

Cracking image Matt, beautiful star colours. It looked very transparent last night in North Essex glad you made the most of it to use your lovely AZ-EQ6.  I had to settle for a brief glance at Jupiter through the bedroom window as I have been laid up with 'flu for the past 4 days.  

[laudropb]

Very nice image. Lovely star colours captured.

[Davey-T]

Beautiful image Matt, not far from you as the crow flies but gave up on imaging here last night as the sky went very misty.

Dave

[MattJenko]

@Davey-T It went very milky in Essex too very soon after this, as I tried a galaxy image when this was done, but it didn't turn out good! Not helped by autofocusing routines struggling with galaxy cores!

@RobertI - Get better soon fella. If you are still sick next week, I will be back from a week away in Cornwall and will bring you some ice cream. Might do that whatever your condition though

[RobertI]

20 hours ago, MattJenko said:

@Davey-T It went very milky in Essex too very soon after this, as I tried a galaxy image when this was done, but it didn't turn out good! Not helped by autofocusing routines struggling with galaxy cores!

@RobertI - Get better soon fella. If you are still sick next week, I will be back from a week away in Cornwall and will bring you some ice cream. Might do that whatever your condition though

Thanks Matt, Ice cream is what my sore throat is really craving at the moment!