LandyJon Posted February 14, 2021 Share Posted February 14, 2021 Jon here in Runcorn, UK, been setting myself up over the last 9 months or so to get some good deep sky images and with a lot of help and advice from my mate Stu and the very helpful Steve @ENS Optical, on top of information gleaned from your very knowledgeable discussions here on the forum, I've got myself up and running with a Celestron Nexstar 6SE with F6.3 Reducer/Corrector, ZWO ASI183MC, Altair GPCAM3 385C3 and a William Optics guidescope mounted on a NEQ6PRO. It's been a long journey from first buying the OTA on its Goto mount, through having the main board catch fire on the mount which Steve had replaced without hesitation despite being sold as used (many thanks) and plenty of other headaches and head scratchers with adapting the way Stu does his imaging to fit with my quite different rig and eventually figuring out how to get mine working, I finally have something to show for it. So Friday came with a couple of hrs of clear sky after Thursdays entire evening and early morning being spent getting back in focus after adjusting the back focus to the correctors requirement and struggling with camera connection dropouts and catching the mounts off switch while polar aligning with Sharpcaps, impressive so far, Polar alignment feature. Fridays brief window was enough to get setup, aligned synced, focused, guiding and about 15 mins of data on M42 and 9 mins of darks in the library 🙂 Since I'm just getting to grips with the processing and it's a limited amount of data, Stu kindly processed it for me to see what I'd got and I'm impressed, as are most people with less knowledge than me haha. I'm sure I'll look back see it's not that great, but right now it looks amazing from where I'm sitting ! Thanks again for your community input into my knowledge and hope I can start to contribute what I've learnt to help others and fine tune what I'm doing with more advice from you folks. 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JeremyS Posted February 14, 2021 Share Posted February 14, 2021 Very nice setup And welcome to SGL 👍🏻 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Floater Posted February 14, 2021 Share Posted February 14, 2021 Welcome. You’re working well. Have lots of fun. 🙂 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
banjaxed Posted February 14, 2021 Share Posted February 14, 2021 Hi Jon, welcome to SGL. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PXR-5 Posted February 15, 2021 Share Posted February 15, 2021 Welcome to SGL Jon thanks for joining us 😊 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PeterCPC Posted February 15, 2021 Share Posted February 15, 2021 Hello and welcome. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Goldenmole Posted February 15, 2021 Share Posted February 15, 2021 Wow, what a superb picture you took there, Jon! Welcome to the Lounge. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Xsubmariner Posted February 15, 2021 Share Posted February 15, 2021 Hi Jon, welcome to SGL. A great start to a fascinating and addictive hobby. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sloz1664 Posted February 15, 2021 Share Posted February 15, 2021 Hi Jon, and a very warm welcome to the Lounge. Nice set-up and neat M42 Steve Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
laudropb Posted February 15, 2021 Share Posted February 15, 2021 Hello and a warm welcome to the SGL. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr Spock Posted February 15, 2021 Share Posted February 15, 2021 Hi Jon, welcome to SGL Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
barbulo Posted February 15, 2021 Share Posted February 15, 2021 Welcome to SGL Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wookie1965 Posted February 15, 2021 Share Posted February 15, 2021 A warm welcome to SGL Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sunshine Posted February 15, 2021 Share Posted February 15, 2021 Welcome! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Simon Pepper Posted February 16, 2021 Share Posted February 16, 2021 Welcome looks like you have a good set up here! Happy imaging and clear skies! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dave Lloyd Posted February 16, 2021 Share Posted February 16, 2021 Hi Jon, welcome. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pete Presland Posted March 1, 2021 Share Posted March 1, 2021 Hi welcome to SGL from Pete in Bedfordshire 🙂 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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