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Pinwhweel Galaxy. Esprit 100 first light


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Well this is just a quick first light with a newly acquired Esprit 100. Nice to have a little window of clear sky to finally test the new scope properly. Everything worked nicely and i was even able to transfer my auto focuser from the Tak to this without the need for any adaptors and it seemed to work well. I had it refocus every hour as i'm not sure how well the new scope does with changes in temperature over long periods, and for some reason i just can't get the temperature probe to work.

Galaxies aren't really my thing as i'm aperature challanged but it was well positioned and at this time of year i'm seriously limited in target choice by the big lump of house blocking the view to the North West, North and North East.  

So this is 3 hrs in 150 second subs with the Asi 071 gain 50 -5C. Zwo IR filter

Mounted on an Az Eq6.

Captured with SGpro. Stacked and fully calibrated with APP.

Processed in APP, PI and PS

Hope you like it.

Richard.

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3 minutes ago, Cozzy said:

That is a cracking capture and very nicely processed too, still looks good when pixel peeping.:thumbright:

nice one!

 

Tim

 

Thanks Tim. There's a lovely cluster of galaxies bottom right too, must look into them.

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58 minutes ago, tooth_dr said:

I agree, not only does the pinwheel look good, the background is awash with detail.

 

57 minutes ago, Saganite said:

Lovely image Richard, and not just of the Pinwheel. 

Thanks Adam and Steve. I was very happy with the detail it picked up for such a short integration time.

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3 hours ago, Allinthehead said:

Thanks Tim. There's a lovely cluster of galaxies bottom right too, must look into them.

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I look forward to you having a go at this corner, your going to need plenty of integration time on those, good luck.

 

Tim

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On 07/05/2019 at 19:49, Rodd said:

Very nice--I like the orientation and framing as well.

Rodd

Thanks Rodd

On 07/05/2019 at 22:00, tomato said:

Nice one, wish I could that colour rendition in my close up version.?

Thanks. Yours has lovely detail though.

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