First light M81/M82.

[MARS1960]

First light for the WO ZS73 and Canon 60D.

FLO replaced my faulty 73R F/R but sadly the replacement is also faulty so field was not very flat hence the severe crop.

I managed 78 good 60sec subs till clouds rolled in.

No guiding as I wanted to see how the new Ioptron CEM 26 performed, sadly not to well and 60sec was the best I could get, shame as I used to get double that on my old CG5. 

 

 

 

[smashing]

Cracking effort well done...much better than my guided ones last year  

[grjsk]

8 hours ago, MARS1960 said:

First light for the WO ZS73 and Canon 60D.

FLO replaced my faulty 73R F/R but sadly the replacement is also faulty so field was not very flat hence the severe crop.

I managed 78 good 60sec subs till clouds rolled in.

No guiding as I wanted to see how the new Ioptron CEM 26 performed, sadly not to well and 60sec was the best I could get, shame as I used to get double that on my old CG5. 

 

 

 

Only 60 sec in the cem26? That is a shame, I was looking at either that or the gem 28, but I was hoping for at least a couple of minutes..

[MARS1960]

14 hours ago, grjsk said:

Only 60 sec in the cem26? That is a shame, I was looking at either that or the gem 28, but I was hoping for at least a couple of minutes..

I was very surprised not to get 2 mins, but this might not be indicative of all CEM 26 mounts.

I'm going to send it off to darkframe in the summer for some tuning and upgrades.

[MARS1960]

15 hours ago, smashing said:

Cracking effort well done...much better than my guided ones last year  

Thank you.