First night of EAA with Altair GPCam3 290C

[jonathancd]

First night out using Sharpcap live stacking and my new Altair GPcam3 290c.  Telescope was a TEC140 with a Meade 0.33 reducer (at about 0.4) so the scope was operating around F2.8.   The globulars were 8 second exposures and the galaxies and nebula 18 seconds all the stacks were 5-7 minutes in total.  They were saved as seen PNGs.  I tweaked them a little in photoshop but I was pleased to see how low the noise was without any calibration frames given it was a mild night.  Really versatile camera and I look forward to using it more.  Also took some pictures of Jupiter, Saturn and Mars with the same camera but with a 2.5x barlow instead of the reducer, I am putting these pictures in the planetary imaging section.

M2

M15

M27

M31 core

NGC891

 

NGC7331

[JeremyS]

Super images @jonathancd

[RobertI]

Very nicely capured.  You've done well to get so few edge abberations at F2.8!