philjay Posted February 3, 2013 Share Posted February 3, 2013 Managed 1st light on the Atik 314L OSC last night. I didnt want to be fighting guiding as well as learning a new camera so I used the FLT98 with WO Mk4 flattener and reducer to bring the FL down to 5.6 and giving a nice wide field. Forgot to reset the reducer so some off stars at the edges are strange but what the hey. Both about an hour of 4 minute subs through some real pea soupy high mist so I had alot of gradients to get rid of. No calibration on the images cos I wanted to see how noisy the cam was, so Ive cheated and taken some of the artifacts out. Alltogether Im pleased with the camera (thanks Sheila) and I reckon it will do nicely for what I want to do. Oh sorry the images are M1 and M81 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Eddy Posted February 3, 2013 Share Posted February 3, 2013 Nice Phil, 4 minutes unguided? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
philjay Posted February 3, 2013 Author Share Posted February 3, 2013 No mate, sorry, it was guided but I kept the subs down to 4 minutes and went for short focal length to reduce any guiding errors.I wish my mount could do 4 minutes unguided Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sheila Posted February 3, 2013 Share Posted February 3, 2013 glad you are back into it now with the OSC, always pleased to help not got started me yet, just waiting filter wheel and new NEQ6 head and then should be good to go Sheila Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Kheldar Posted February 3, 2013 Share Posted February 3, 2013 Looking good Phil, OSC working better for you than Mono or too early to tell yet? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
oldfruit Posted February 3, 2013 Share Posted February 3, 2013 Lovely results, M81 looks superb. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
catman161 Posted February 3, 2013 Share Posted February 3, 2013 Very Nice Phil. I especially like M81. I bet you're well pleased with those results. Lovely colour and detail. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
philjay Posted February 3, 2013 Author Share Posted February 3, 2013 Too early to tell on the technique but I like the camera and principle Stephen but looking good so far, gotta get back into the routine of sorting everything out, flats/darks bias etc but its still alot less fiddly than LRGB. Not quite back into it Sheila but its given me the shot in the arm I needed, was getting a bit frustrated before so hopefully I can get on to what I originally wanted the cam for close ups of galaxies and planetaries in the Meade 127 EDT at f7.5 and a colourful double/multiple stars at high f ratio. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Kheldar Posted February 3, 2013 Share Posted February 3, 2013 Darks? Don't swear Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
andyboy1970 Posted February 3, 2013 Share Posted February 3, 2013 Nice Phil shows lots of promise. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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