NGC 6960

[Danon]

Hi. It's my "first" light from new scope Esprit 100. After a long fight with tilt on my camera and lack of good weather, finally some frames were gathered. 

This is 38x 600s Ha, and 28x OIII from city in Poland. It's only half of the planned time. Finnaly I would like to have at least 20h+ of total exposure time. 

Esprit 100/550 with Atik 460ex on HEQ5. 

 

 

Edited August 18, 2020 by Danon

[Singlin]

Fantastic first light.

The sharpness stands out.

[speckofdust]

amazing result

[teoria_del_big_bang]

Very nice image. I just know you will love this scope 🙂 

Steve

[sloz1664]

Beautifully captured processed & framed. Excellent first light

Steve

[MarkAR]

Excellent image, some lovely detail showing.

[Backyard Space Dude]

Very lovely. This has me super excited to get my own Esprit 100!

[gorann]

Lovely first image and congratulation to what I know is a fantastic scope! I am surprised that you had to deal with tilt.

[Adam J]

On 18/08/2020 at 08:26, Danon said:

Hi. It's my "first" light from new scope Esprit 100. After a long fight with tilt on my camera and lack of good weather, finally some frames were gathered. 

This is 38x 600s Ha, and 28x OIII from city in Poland. It's only half of the planned time. Finnaly I would like to have at least 20h+ of total exposure time. 

Esprit 100/550 with Atik 460ex on HEQ5. 
 

Looks like a good example to me. I am shocked you managed to get the HEQ5 pro to carry it, I tried and failed to get it to work on mine and changed to an AZEQ6 GT.

Guess I will add you to a long list of people i know of with tilted sensors on the ATIK460EX.

Edited August 21, 2020 by Adam J

[Danon]

Thanks all. @Adam J I'm still wondering if I really manage to carry it. Lots of my stars are "egg shaped", but not on whole image. Still Isn't look like bad spacing, because they not are directed into middle of image.  Maybe its because I'm shooting from city and seeing are often bad. For now I just ignore it.  RMS on oag is about 1" and I think I can't make it better. 

[Danon]

Updating image with new one.
This is 98x600s and 77xOIII. Summary time is about 29hrs
Enjoy 

Astrobin  <---

 

Edited October 22, 2020 by Danon

[tooth_dr]

Fantastic, thanks for sharing.

[callisto]

Wow....just pops out at you 

 

Mark

[glafnazur]

Excellent image. I have the Esprit 100 too, they are great scopes and I'd love the 460ex I just need to convince the wife..............

[Danon]

Thanks all. I appreciate that. 

@glafnazur Yes, icx694 is great sensor and processing images are just pleasure

 

[John Nodding]

Really like this Danon! 👍🏻
 

Noddy

[Crackabarrel]

Great work, looks amazing