First light test set for Atik 4000

[NickH]

New CCD arrived today. Have used it in Spain for two years, but between setup and completion on these images was around under 3 hours. just for testing, but the lack of any vignetting, and the narrowband response has me salivating.

10 x 300s/channel

HA/OIII/SII

Need to order a coma corrector for the TMB now :-)

Apart from that ...v happy

All images linked are low resolution/jpeg compressed

ATIK 4000 - a set on Flickr

[vincentnm]

That is amazing. Look at the amount of background nebulosity.

[NickH]

You have to see the single 300s sub of M31 it took... :-)..almost fell off my chair

[Psychobilly]

You have to see the single 300s sub of M31 it took... :-)..almost fell off my chair

Well post it somewhere then ....

[NickH]

:-)

[Psychobilly]

Oh yes...

[NickH]

That's 1x 300s unflatfielded, undarked, un biased sub frame...the only thing I did to it was DDP in Maxim DL, no calibration whatsoever

[Shibby]

Wow! You lie, surely that's 20 frames stacked! With, er, the same satellite in each...

[jerryaxe]

HI Nick,

The Atik 4K is a great imaging box. I love mine :-)

Well done....now what you need is clear sky

Cheers

Jerry

[NickH]

Jerry, indeed...been lucky so far this past week...tonight is cloudy so catching up on some image processing

[MartinB]

What scope was this with Nick?

[NickH]

TMB105 F6.2

Here's the single 300s M45 shot...no calibration again

DDP stretched

delta T at -31.9 when the image was taken...unbinned :-)

1/25" filters, you can see a fractional vignetting top right and bottom right

[Coco]

daggnabbit.... what a nice piece of kit..