Allinthehead Posted July 1, 2018 Share Posted July 1, 2018 Imaging telescope: Takahashi Epsilon 130d Imaging camera: ZWO ASI1600MM-Cool Mount:SkyWatcher AZ EQ6 Guiding telescope or lens: Takahashi Epsilon 130d Software: Sequence Generator Pro Seqence Generator Pro Filter: Astrodon 5nm Ha Resolution: 4625x3496 Dates: June 29, 2018 Frames: 46x300" Integration: 3.8 hours Avg. Moon age: 15.92 days Avg. Moon phase: 98.49% Pixel scale: 1.828 arcsec/pixel Orientation: 359.852 degrees Field radius: 1.472 degrees Locations: Back Garden, Cork, Ireland Plan is to add rgb. Hope you like it. Richard. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rodd Posted July 1, 2018 Share Posted July 1, 2018 Looks great. That Epsilon 130 really can collect allot of data in a short amount of time. I am not finding the FSQ 106 with .6x reducer (F3) to be as effective. In fact, other than FOV, I see no difference. Your image is very pleasing--with surprisingly few diff spikes. Maybe the small pixels work to keep them down? Rodd Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Allinthehead Posted July 1, 2018 Author Share Posted July 1, 2018 4 hours ago, Rodd said: Looks great. That Epsilon 130 really can collect allot of data in a short amount of time. I am not finding the FSQ 106 with .6x reducer (F3) to be as effective. In fact, other than FOV, I see no difference. Your image is very pleasing--with surprisingly few diff spikes. Maybe the small pixels work to keep them down? Rodd Thanks Rodd. Not sure about the small pixels helping to keep the spikes down. I would imagine the 5nm ha filter is what it is. That's mad you see no difference at f3. I can remember seeing a significant difference when i added a reducer to my Skywatcher 80ed. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wimvb Posted July 1, 2018 Share Posted July 1, 2018 That's an excellent start of this project. Can't wait to see the colour version. Btw, it's the filter that keeps the spikes down. If you look at the brighter stars, you see that the spikes are there. But because of the way diffraction works, the spikes are dashed. Once colour is added, the spikes will be very pronounced and colourfull. I think that once finished, the spikes of this star will have the extent of this crop. (Famous last words??) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rodd Posted July 2, 2018 Share Posted July 2, 2018 7 hours ago, Allinthehead said: That's mad you see no difference at f3. I can remember seeing a significant difference when i added a reducer to my Skywatcher 80ed. Normally I do too--I see a big difference with a .7x reducer on the TOA 130. I got the FSQ and .6x reducer for F3 so I could finish images in 1 night. So far, I am up to 14 hours for just 2 filters on Sh2-119 and it is not enough. Rodd Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Allinthehead Posted July 2, 2018 Author Share Posted July 2, 2018 12 hours ago, wimvb said: That's an excellent start of this project. Can't wait to see the colour version. Thanks Wim. It's a killer waiting for astro dark. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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