it only taken 15 months

[h0ughy]

15 months ago i bought a new ASI174MM. it sat in the box from bintel until this evening, i thought i better try it out. I unpacked it and loaded the driver onto the main PC in the shed, then with one of the ED80s i sat it on the desk and aimed it out the door.

its been a very looooong time since i have used a camera, but this one is a beast. using sharpcap 2.8 for the very first time i was very unfamiliar with the layout of the features. i had downloaded the USB3 driver for the camera and loaded it and the sound of a successful connection was good. Had thought of aralditing something down but then settled on a house and a telstra mobile tower in the distance.

i did a crop of 1920 x 1280 first then 640 x 480 . i was in awe, then shock. a 30 second grab at 1920 gave a 5.5gig fileand still grabs were 4meg - this is going to be a problem to use for long time-lapse procurements:eyepop:

the house was 2.1km away but the tower was 2.8km away. this impressed me very much for the ease of focusing, i cant wait to play with the sun and moon:D

these are just the ramblings of a wannabe imager - happy that the path can be found soon;)

the reason why i really got this out was I will be doing the pour for the dome very soon - the incentive to progress this happened:help::lol:

[Atmos]

It looks like you are getting yourself into a position to have a lot of fun :P I'd be worried about how much HD space you'd take up if you decided that you wanted to do a full moon mosaic in one sitting :P

[h0ughy]

so am i - the last one was 77 panels:D so so long ago

[RickS]

Cut the talking and go do some real astro imaging :lol:

[h0ughy]

yeah you are right......buuuuttt there is darkness at the end of the tunnel;)

[ZeroID]

Have fun with the build and enjoy the results. I've never regretted my tin shed build.

I'd be interested in your comments on the 174 when you get some serious imaging done. It's one of the options I'm looking at but the cooled version.