Theophilus & Cyrillus - Fullerscope

[CraigT82]

This is the first image produced with my new imaging setup of Fullerscope (8.75" F7.5) on EQ6 mount and Altair GPcam3 290mm.

Collected at 6pm on Thursday during full daylight. Fairly quick set up and collection due to the moon disappearing behind the garage, so only approx 5000 frames collected and stacked the best 250.  Moon at around 18 degrees altitude so used a Baader IR685 filter along with a EX 2x focal extender.

The long tube of the Fullerscope bounces around a lot, I think I'm going to do some experimenting with a Hargreaves strut.

I'm pretty happy with this, the conditions were poor (and processing is a bit aggressive to counter the daylight lack of contrast) but the set up shows potential for when the moon is a bit higher this winter.

Sharpened in imppg and gimp.

Edited September 7, 2019 by CraigT82