first shots with a CentralDS cooled 40D

[pmrid]

I had an opportunity at Astrofest this year to buy a cooled and spectrum enhanced 40D and have now had a night of clear skies and good seeing to try it out. The objects chosen are the Helix (NGC7293) and the Pinwheel (M33). Each object was taken with a plain-jane Bintel 8" newt and is a stack of 12x5 minute subs at an image scale of 1.17 asp. The cooler dropped the sensor to Delta minus 18 or 19 and since ambient sat around 8-10C most of the night, the result was fairly close to minus 9 or 10. Not too shoddy really. A bit more blue-response might have been nice - especially in the M33 shots. But overall, and for first outings, I thought these were fairly promising.

Peter

[Larryp]

Those images look good, Peter!

[RickS]

A good first light, Peter!

[strongmanmike]

Yes definitely promising Pete and congrats on the new camera, always fun shaking new equipment down :)

Mike

[Nortilus]

so you did buy that cooled 40d? gave in to temptation huh :P
Nice images too...

[h0ughy]

done well peter - somehow I successfully killed two cooled 40D's at this years astrofest

[pmrid]

Thanks guys. I grabbed the 40D to go with the un-modd'd one I have with a view to using both as part of a minimalist travelling rig for use in grey nomad journeys I'm planning. Good tripods and lenses, a Polrie and full esky. Bliss.

I've been inspired to have a crack at nightscapes and time-lapse stuff by some of th great images in IIS. Hope the dog is not too old to learn.

Houghy, I reckon the power spikes we were seeing in our orner of the field could not have been good fr our electronics. Hope your cams are repairable.

Peter

[rustigsmed]

nice work peter, i'm looking at getting a cooled CDS600.

[jjjnettie]

:) Nice work there Peter.
They're a useful piece of kit. I love my CDS1100D.

[astronobob]

Very nice work Peter, They have come up real good :thumbsup: