Test Images on my New Scope

[Kai]

Ive just spent a couple of hours breaking in my new William Optics Flt98

Both are popular targets and are a stack of 15 x 5 min subs taken on my Sxvf 9 with a Baader 7nm Ha filter.Stacked in Maxim and a slight adjustment in curves and levels in Cs2

Firstly the Bubble Nebula

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And secondly the Flame Neb

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Cant complain as the Clud Gods see to be busy elsewhere

[Psychobilly]

Yes here

Nice images there Kai looks like the start of a fruitfull relationship

Billy...

[brendant]

Superb way to break in a scope, they are both cracking images. Particularly like the Bubble, lovely definition and great sense of perspective, it just seems to pop out

Brendan

[Kai]

if anybody out there has CCD Inspector could i ask a favour and could you run the Bubble image through it and see what it throws up .

Cheers

[lunator]

Steve

The images look good

[Psychobilly]

Hi Kai,

Think you need a TIFF ot FITS to run through CCD Inspector a higher res image is also better... its not worth converting up the Jpegs as any jpeg artefacts will screw the results..

Can you upload a file to UKAstronomers?

Billy...

[beamish]

They are Fantastic !! I love the Bubble.

Karlo

[Taff]

Hi Kai' nice captures with your new scope.Taff

[Whippy]

Looking good there amigo, great pair of images especially that Bubble:).

Tony..

[LostNSpace]

Nice 1st light images with your new scope Kai

Mark

[MartinB]

Here you go Steve, as Billy says, may not be completely accurate but gives you a pretty good idea. As these pics show that is a great set up you've got there. The scope and camera really are a perfect match. You shouldn't have any field curvature problems so I wouldn't bother with the field flattener.

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[Psychobilly]

HI Martin - did you convert the Jpegs - if you did it look like the results are pretty good - sayign that the wasnt much jpeg noise in Kais images anyway...

How flat do you really need to go...? My M72 FF III setup is about 13% at the corners but no easy way of adjustignthe spacing.....

Billy...

[markcol]

Very nice shots Steve, looks a cracking setup.

Mark

[Kai]

Here you go Steve, as Billy says, may not be completely accurate but gives you a pretty good idea. As these pics show that is a great set up you've got there. The scope and camera really are a perfect match. You shouldn't have any field curvature problems so I wouldn't bother with the field flattener.

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Cheers Martin , another excuse out the window

Next test is to try the 6.3 reducer on the setup.

[Starjumper]

Looking good.

John

[MartinB]

HI Martin - did you convert the Jpegs - if you did it look like the results are pretty good - sayign that the wasnt much jpeg noise in Kais images anyway...

I just converted the jpeg to a tiff

[RichieJarvis]

Looking very good there Kai

I'd be interested to see a comparison between my AP 102ED and your WO FLT98...

MartinB - would you mind running one of my bubble subs through CCD Inspector as well? Here is one:

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Thank you

Richie

[Kai]

I have just run the 15 subs through a demo copy of CCD inspector and it gives a curvature of 17.9% .

[barkis]

You have made a great investment there Steve. It has started to earn its keep already with these results. Very satisfying to get these under your belt. Two corkers they are.

Ron.

[steve51450]

cracking result for a test outing, simply superb