Leo Triplet, first faltering steps ZWO ASI 6200

[Horwig]

Here it is with all its faults, Imaged at 1450mm at f3.6, but scaled to 30% to hide the worst:

First, the good stuff, it's only 70 minutes in L, RBG were 20 minutes each, all unbinned.

The camera only arrived a few days ago, and I was hoping to give it its first outing on my FSQ, but the Tak 72 to 98 adaptor won't arrive for months.

So it's been hung off my 40cm Newt, which is still very much work ongoing.

I had to throw away 30 percent of the L subs because of movement during the exposures, took ages to find the culprit:- the camera was not screwed tightly to my SX filter wheel, what a plonker.

Even the good subs have eggy stars, collimation still not perfect.

But I reckon it's still not too noisy a data set, no noise reduction was used and only minimal sharpening, I'm optimistic of good things to come.

 

Huw