North American and Pelican wide field 5x4 degree view

[CCD Imager]

I purchased a new little refractor, an Askar FRA 400, from our friend Zultan at 365 astronomy. Its a petzval design, so no need for flat filed correctors and so far I am impressed.

Here is my first light taken over a couple of weeks grabbing data where I could and accumulated 14 hours with the ASI6200

Do click on the image to see the higher resolution and pan around and get lost in the North American and Pelican nebulas

Adrian

[Adreneline]

Very nice - really like the colours. The bottom right quadrant is my favourite part of the the image.

Adrian

[Roy Foreman]

Yes, very nice colours. I like the top left quadrant, but all if it is excellent

[Zummerzet_Leveller]

Fantastic image. Is this a narrowband image with a mono version of the camera?

[CCD Imager]

15 minutes ago, Zummerzet_Leveller said:

Fantastic image. Is this a narrowband image with a mono version of the camera?

Hi Jody, thank you and yes, the mon version with narrowband filters

Adrian

[CCD Imager]

1 hour ago, Adreneline said:

Very nice - really like the colours. The bottom right quadrant is my favourite part of the the image.

Adrian

Hi Adrian, thank you and I agree, I do like the criss cross pattern of nebulosity in the lower area. Its often not imaged, but I purposefully orientated the camera to portrait to include this area

[Viktiste]

Very nice image 👍

I struggled to see the pelican when I first imaged this region, it is pretty easy to see in your picture. 

[teoria_del_big_bang]

A lovely image and what a nice FOV.
 

Steve

[Lee_P]

Brilliant picture, and it's always nice to see another Askar FRA400 user

 

[CCD Imager]

Hi Lee, thanks for the comment and I suspect there arent many of us Askar owners. I have been particularly imrpessed with the 3 inch rack and pinion focuser, it holds the camera and large filter wheel with ease and the optics produce excellent corner stars with a full frame camera. Do you agree?

Adrian