New ZWO ASI294C + ASIAIR - first Image

[Selborne]

I recently purchased a cooled astro camera the ZWO ASI294C one-shot colour camera and the new ASIAIR all in one astro-photography telescope top computer (Rasberry Pie), and the first object I attempted was the Pleiades M45,  I have to say my first impressions are that it is just awesome, there is next to no noise what so ever.  In the case of this image, I took 20 x 240s shots, no darks, no lights and no bias, as it was just a test, however with this result, I think I will not be worrying too much in the future with all the additional preparation shots.

I processed the image using AstroPixelProcessor software and then finished it off in Photoshop, the image did not need a huge amount of processing, mostly levels and some curve adjustment, so very happy.

The ASIAIR is probably one of the most complete pieces of technology I believe I have ever had the good fortune to use, one I got to understand how it worked, I was able to sit in the comfort of my living room to use it, as it connects via 5GHz wifi, the guiding works very well and the ease of use for setting the camera temperature and exposure time was very pleasing, what a wonderful plug and play piece of equipment, well done to ASI  !!

I understand that M45 is a bright object, so the next plan is to try darker more difficult target to see how I get on, I will let you know 🙂

thanks

Jamie

[fwm891]

Try not to take your background so dark as your loosing a lot of fine detail - great start

[Demonperformer]

Looking good. It's great when technology just works.