Pacman - first light with the Astrotech (at last)

[Sparrow]

It's taken me all summer to sort out mounting the Astrotech side by side with my guide scope and finally got a session with it last night.

I've been having horrendous problems with guiding which I finally solved last night so some of the subs for this image are less than perfect and I will be returning to it ASAP for longer subs now I've got the guiding sub-pixel. I'm also managing without a field flattener at the moment so I've cropped the worst out of it.

However, as it's first light with the scope I couldn't resist posting the results. Hope you like it.

Astrotech 66mm Apo

Canon EOS1000D (Unmodded)

PHD Guiding

11 x 5 minutes ISO 800

Processed in CS3 and Pixinsight.

Darks and Bias taken. No flats yet. Vignetting removed with Pixinsight

[Keiran]

Nice image