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Reason for bad weather....

Picked up a new toy today.... a not too shabby piece of glass.... Canon L-200mm F2.0

Took some test pics with a 5DIII...zippo false colour, superb geometric correction....however, even though Fred will be disappointed... it is destined for some WFW imaging in H-alpha
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Old 12-06-2013, 05:53 PM
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Magnificent!

On my wish list, for sure.

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Old 12-06-2013, 06:12 PM
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Wow. A beautiful piece of gear.

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Old 12-06-2013, 06:19 PM
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Magnificent!

On my wish list, for sure.

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H! Of course you'd say that.... I know your sheer dislike for Canon glass: not!
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Old 12-06-2013, 06:23 PM
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Wow. A beautiful piece of gear.

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Ta Greg... my plan is to have 200mm through 3000mm FL's covered in reasonably discrete steps...as I have a fair bit of Canon glass already, to quote Spock, "it seemed logical"
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Old 12-06-2013, 06:30 PM
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Noice!

Do you think it would illuminate a 16803 chip? (I'm assuming that is an 8300 chip in that camera)

I tried my 70-200 lens on my QSI, unfortunately the results were less than impressive - lots of tilt. After checking the mounting and pondering for a while, all I think the of is that image stabilisation system needs to be powered to keep the moving parts square. I've had success with that mount an an 85mm lens so I don't believe it's a problem with the mount on the CCD.

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Old 12-06-2013, 07:02 PM
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Do you think it would illuminate a 16803 chip? (I'm assuming that is an 8300 chip in that camera)


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Ta Dave....Yes, I think it would (L-lenses are designed to fully illuminate 35mm sensors, and a 16803 has the same elevation profile), only problem is, my SBIG's 16803 doesn't have the right back focus....

But that's OK, the KAF8300 is basically a APC chip, and the sampling is better.... a case of "watch this space"
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With that title.... I thought you were going to say you'd bought an EQ8!
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With that title.... I thought you were going to say you'd bought an EQ8!
Nah... my PME's boiler hasn't sprung too many leaks yet
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Ta Greg... my plan is to have 200mm through 3000mm FL's covered in reasonably discrete steps...as I have a fair bit of Canon glass already, to quote Spock, "it seemed logical"

Yes, why not!

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