This field is located in Centaurus, an amazing field of galaxies, most of them seem to be on the right, but they are still every where
This is a work in progress, but thought i would post what I've done so far. A slight Deconvolution performed and a little stretching in CCDstack. FWHM came back as 1.81" on the combined stack.
Planewave cdk 12.5
STL-11000 M
Paramount ME
10 x 30min Lum subs for 5hrs total thus far, but its still quite noisy.
Colour would be grand to.
Wow...hasn't Joshua come of age along with the Hydra cluster, two quality images Great capable bit of kit you have there...the sky is certainly open for business for you now huh?
What's the go with the tube reinforcing..? Did you have some flexure going on there?
Awesome! It will be fantastic in colour for sure
The 'Saturn' galaxy is really cool too.
Thanks Rolf, Its one of those fields that one could get lost in. Love the "Saturn" to
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Originally Posted by allan gould
Fantastic field that I had not seen before. Well done and I hope you get the rest of your data.
Allan
Thankyou Allan, Ill see what i can do with some colour data when i get it.
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Originally Posted by strongmanmike
Wow...hasn't Joshua come of age along with the Hydra cluster, two quality images Great capable bit of kit you have there...the sky is certainly open for business for you now huh?
What's the go with the tube reinforcing..? Did you have some flexure going on there?
Mike
Thanks Mike, I appreciate the comments. I actually have a back log of data that i haven't processed from last year, maybe i will just add more to it this year and process it as one.
The tube reinforcing, it seems i had some flexure. The stars in the corners of my ship and elsewhere on the chip changed shape as i slewed around the sky. I cant be sure where the flexure was coming from on the tube or whether it was from a number of sources (it wasnt the camera gear or focuser). But the braces fix it Performs great. Maybe for a smaller chip it wouldn't have mattered, but the STL isn't a small chip and i was also looking for high quality
Thanks Mike, I appreciate the comments. I actually have a back log of data that i haven't processed from last year, maybe i will just add more to it this year and process it as one.
The tube reinforcing, it seems i had some flexure. The stars in the corners of my ship and elsewhere on the chip changed shape as i slewed around the sky. I cant be sure where the flexure was coming from on the tube or whether it was from a number of sources (it wasnt the camera gear or focuser). But the braces fix it Performs great. Maybe for a smaller chip it wouldn't have mattered, but the STL isn't a small chip and i was also looking for high quality
Thanks
Great to hear you solved the star shape issue, the frame looks lovely
It seems that many scopes, even high end ones, need some clever investigation and correction to get them to sing at times. E.g. While still providing acceptable results, with my large 16803 chip on my very fast AG12 I would love to have some easy image plane tilt adjustments available ...buuut instead of fabricating a solution.... I just started using a smaller chip ...of course I will likely return to using the big chip on the AG12 in the future ...so I too will have to work something out then
And you achieved it Josh - very nice work indeed!! That CDK is delivering the goods! That is a magnificent field too!
Thanks Marc, The scope is working fantastically.
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Originally Posted by strongmanmike
Great to hear you solved the star shape issue, the frame looks lovely
It seems that many scopes, even high end ones, need some clever investigation and correction to get them to sing at times. E.g. While still providing acceptable results, with my large 16803 chip on my very fast AG12 I would love to have some easy image plane tilt adjustments available ...buuut instead of fabricating a solution.... I just started using a smaller chip ...of course I will likely return to using the big chip on the AG12 in the future ...so I too will have to work something out then
Mike
There are image plane tilt adjusters on the market, you probably know that. The double truss design the Planewave and some others use looks to be the goods. I think the structural design of them lends them to be practically flexure free.