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First light with new rc8 its actually my second one, the first being sent back to retailer for replacement as it had a bad reflection problem. The new one has a slightly different secondary housing and spider vane design, maybe this was part of the problem with the first.

I managed to get 20 * 300sec of m83 with 5dmark2 with hotech field flattener on eq6 mount and it was a first for the guiding setup as well with my ed80 piggybacked with ssag.
I was a bit uncertain how this setup would go for guiding but it seemed to work very well.

Darks and flats applied and stacked in dss and processing done with photoshop cs5.

Also i have noticed that the stars in the lower right hand corner are a bit egg shaped, would this be collimation or just a bit of tilt in the imaging train??

thanks Gavin