The Saucepan

[Retrograde]

Hi All,

decided to put my mount through its paces last week as it has been a while since I used it. I managed to adjust the worm backlash and PHD2 seemed to calibrate much quicker than last time.
Unfortunately it turned out to be a 43 degree day so being such a warm evening it wasn't ideal for minimising DLSR sensor noise. :lol: I ended up taking the subs at only 100 ISO and successfully dithered most of the subs manually in PHD2.

I ended up with just 9 x 7min subs taken using my astro-modded Pentax K-5iis through a Pentax 165mm f2.8 6x7 lens stopped down to f6 using an aperture mask.
Larger version: http://www.astrobin.com/full/278971/0/

[leon]

Pete I love a good wide field, beautiful image.

leon

[RickS]

A very nice image, Pete :thumbsup:

[Ryderscope]

That's a pretty good wide field image Pete.

[Atmos]

Picking up the background Ha quite nicely. Nice wide field :)

[Retrograde]

Thanks very much Leon.



Thanks Rick!



Thank-you Rodney.



Thanks Colin. The modded DLSR is certainly paying dividends. Would have liked some more data (& some shorter exposures for the core of M42) but happy with the result given the conditions.