24 March 2022

M81 from a suburban sky:

Enewton2 40cm home made Newtonian

homemade fork mount,

cheaper coma corrector,

canon 700D fullspectrum,

L-pro filter,

Autoguide with PHD on Stellarvue AT1010.

11 Dark frames

17 Bias frames

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These are 2 shoots of the M3 cluster, the night was not so good, but I’ve used this time to test a cheaper coma corrector quality.
Each photo is a composition of 61x15sec shoots.
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Some years ago I’m working with a Starlight Xpress MX716, this is a sum of 4x6min during a calibration of the mount.

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The instrument was reviewed here

• Location: Ghiro observatory
• Instrument: Stellarvue AT1010
• Camera: Canon 20D
• Processing: Dss, Iris, Photoshop
• Img 70x40sec @800iso
• 35 Dark (no flat,bias)

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Started as a stunning night, but after a couple of hours, it began to cloud over. Anyway it was a good surprise to see the result of these shoots because the scope was unguided, the total drift can be honestly … Read the rest

• Location: Ghiro observatory
• Instrument: sigma 150mm @f3.2
• Mount: Enewton2
• Camera: Canon 20D @800iso
• Processing: DeepSkyStacker, Photoshop, Firecapture, PHD2
• 40 frame (50s) – 50 dark – 42 flats – 41 bias
• Integration: 40min

First test of autoguide with enewton and ZWO and … Read the rest