First Light with new mount & scope combo

[fwm891]

New CEM60 now in the new observatory and combined with a William Optics ZS 73 APO + 73A flat.

All the images are a combination of 6x300s subs @ 800 iso with a mono D5100, 7nm Ha Baader filter inside the 73A flat.

Processing in PI + tweak in PS

[simmo39]

Nice start to new stuff.

[swag72]

Nice one Francis..... these are great. I'm thrilled to see you back at it 👍🏻👍🏻

 

[Davey-T]

Great to see all your efforts rewarded Francis, look forwards to more images.

Dave

[Freddie]

Very nice results there. What needed to be fixed to cure the noisy mount and other than what can be seen here, how is it performing?

[MarsG76]

Great collection... 

[fwm891]

1 hour ago, Freddie said:

Very nice results there. What needed to be fixed to cure the noisy mount and other than what can be seen here, how is it performing?

You'll have to ask Rob at FLO what the problems were with the original mount. FLO exchanged the mount as soon as a replacement became available - no quibbles.

Performance wise the PHD2 traces are very flat. I know I used a short fl scope and an 8x 50 guidescope which was no effort for the mount. But whilst setting up the PA earlier in the week with the 115 EDT (805mm fl) on board, the few tests undertaken with an OAG gave flat results too. So really pleased at the mo.