19 Day Waning Moon 20th August

[baggywrinkle]

I have the Meade LX850 running again and tried an Altair Astro GP 290M cam, a small mono ccd fast frame camera.

Though a smaller chip than my AA178C I normally use the performance is excellent. 20th August morning at 03:00 BST was also very very stable for seeing. On the Damian Peach scale, almost a 5, something we do not often get in the UK.

The GP290 was running in MONO12 bit mode, and I used either 2000 or 5000 frames. Easy as the camera was working at 45 fps, fast.

For the detailed shot I added a Powermate 2x to the chain. The whole shot was a a mosaic of 4 images shot on my Canon 650D.

Processed in Auto Stakkert and the adjusted in Registax using a 1.5x drizzle and a final tweak in Photoshop.

 

[JamesF]

Outstanding images!

James