1st light from thr AP1200

[RobH]

Hello all,

Last night was clear all night down here, and so I finally managed to get my polar alignment pretty close to nailed.

On Saturday all the bits I had been waiting for arrived, and in the evening I did a 2 star align, spending a couple of hours going back and forth and reducing the errors with each pass. On Monday I used a combination of WCS and drift aligning to get my Alt axis done, and yesterday I worked on RA, finished off Alt, and then did several runs using Polealignmax to fine tune everything.

After playing with guide settings for a while, I shots a few subs...5 mins unguided, 600 secs and 1000 secs guided. I messed with settings in PHD during these, and then decided to shoot another while I went in for a sandwich.

So...my longest sub ever, a familiar target to begin with.....

1 x 30 minute Ha sub, just run through fits liberator with no levels, curves, flats, darks or bias applied ....pretty pleased with this, it bodes well for things to come

[Aza]

Nice one Rob!

Looking forward to seeing what you can produce with this set up now

[MikeD]

30 min's and nice and tight, Sweeeeeeeet.:headbang:

Mike.

[Psychobilly]

Not too shabby I suppose :D

Proper Job....

[barkis]

The future looks very good then Rob. If you wish to exploit the 1200 to the full, you might have to consider retirement.

That is a serious bit of kit, and I bet you feel as happy as Nelson with two tails..

Ron.

[RobH]

Yep Ron, chuffed to bits....I really struggled with the CGE...not the fault of the mount really, I was asking a lot from it, but it got a bit tiresome in the end. I was going to shoot a 1 hour sub, just to see if I could, but the sun decided to start coming up!

Cheers

Rob

[Tim]

Brilliant, you'll really start to pull out the faint stuff now Rob, if it ever gets dark again!

Lol Ron, Nelson with two tails

[steve51450]

Very nice 1st light rob, i am pleased at all went sweet for you

cracking image as well !

[Psychobilly]

I suppose the mount of that class will handle a lot more as well...

As long as you have an ample supply of Spaghetti tins! ...

Is spaghetti better than beans .... less turbulence maybe ?

Peter...

[Beyond_Vision]

Glad to see you are up and running Rob. 30 min sub , I bet you are itching for some long dark nights

Regards

Kevin

[markcol]

Amazing sub Rob!

Mark

[Milliways]

Really good image mate, i bet your happy with your new toy

[albedo0.39]

Hey Rob - I'm no imager but that looks sweet.

One of these days (perhaps at Salisbury ?) I'm going to learn what all these "imaging terms" mean - [subs, binned, etc etc...] I'm sure I can guess, but I'd like to watch someone create an image and see how it's all done.

Good image - very crisp to my eyes.

[Eddie]

Jaw firmly on the floor!!!

Eddie

[Doc]

A 30 minute sub and those stars are a tight as my wallet. Fantastic Rob cannot wait for some pics to be posted.

[rich_t]

Lovely image Rob, no differential flexure there then!

Rich.

[Paxo]

Excellent first light Rob, it's amazing how many first lights capture M27 at this time of year, familiarity I think.

Steve..