First Guided Images

[astro_john_palmer]

Hey guys,

Recently got my first guided images, and it all went pretty smoothly with the ASIair Pro!

Struggled with some colour gradients on the Pelican but did my best to remove it. Still some blotches in there I couldn't remove.

 

[knobby]

Really nice John 👍 can't see equipment on mobile, what scope / camera ?

[astro_john_palmer]

 

On 30/06/2020 at 13:16, knobby said:

Really nice John 👍 can't see equipment on mobile, what scope / camera ?

It's a Celestron 8" Newt f5. Camera is an old Canon 50d modified. All mounted on a severely overloaded Celestron CG5 mount! 🤣

[knobby]

Doing well then 👍

[astro_john_palmer]

 

17 hours ago, knobby said:

Doing well then 👍

Just looking at your list of gear, I have questions... do you mount your C8 and imaging gear on the Rowan HEQ5? How heavy is that setup and does the HEQ5 deal with it? My Gear is pretty much bang on 11kg which is the limit for imaging listed for the mount.

Also, what Filters do you have for the 1600? are they the 1.25 mounted? or one of the unmounted options? I'm considering a new mount and a 1600 set for later this year.

[knobby]

All my imaging so far is with the 72ed on an AZ-GTi but the C8 will be having a crack on the HEQ5 soon. It's my second one as the first tracked well but intermittently had a wobble so went back for exchange. Haven't tried the replacement yet as cloudy since it arrived.

1.25 " ZWO filters mounted LRGB and Ha Oiii and Sii

[astro_john_palmer]

5 hours ago, knobby said:

All my imaging so far is with the 72ed on an AZ-GTi but the C8 will be having a crack on the HEQ5 soon. It's my second one as the first tracked well but intermittently had a wobble so went back for exchange. Haven't tried the replacement yet as cloudy since it arrived.

1.25 " ZWO filters mounted LRGB and Ha Oiii and Sii

do you get much vignetting from the 1.25"?

[knobby]

The filter wheel is as close as possible to the camera and I get very slight vignette but could be the scope or the filters so not sure.