Small 'scope Omega

[Peter Ward]

I recently took my FSQ106 out of moth-balls as I was curious to see how it would go with the QHY183c OSC camera.

A sucker hole opened up over Sydney last night, and I managed to bag a few short test shots.

Have to say...despite the vanilla subject matter the result wasn't too shabby.
In many ways getting the data was too easy...I couldn't find where I put the autoguider cable...and at 500mm didn't need the guider anyway.

Almost point and click.
Processing the rather large data files took a while, but did not require anything more than "pack neatly and stack".

A few tweaks in Photoshop CC but that was it.

The link is here (http://www.atscope.com.au/BRO/gallery491.html)

[gregbradley]

Stunning resolution.
FSQ images are almost always undersampled
So the small pixels really work well and extract that
extra resolution the FSQ has.
Terrific result
Greg

[alpal]

Well done Peter,
a properly collimated FSQ106 is perhaps the best little scope around.

cheers
Allan

[Peter Ward]

Ta guys. I recently sold my FSQ85...not sure whether that was a good decision or not :confuse3:....
but couldn't part with the 106.

I'll probably put the funds into the Taka 645 0.7x Reducer....
not cheap but a perfectly corrected 60mm image circle at 370mm and F3.5 is very seductive :cool:

[multiweb]

Nice one. :thumbsup: