Le Pencil

[Addos]

Second ever mono image :) am liking the esprit / 294mm combo. just like its MC brethren, those pixels really suck up the light! bit sad i didnt have the cash to step up to the 268m right now and take better advantage of the huge image circle, but upsides are i have no tilt issues and that field is astoundingly flat, least i think :)

Much much tougher than gabriela with regards to signal. Reasonably happy with this effort nonetheless - 4hrs each of Ha and Oiii.


Capture details and much higher quality image: https://www.astrobin.com/aka4v0/

[gregbradley]

That turned out a treat. Very sharp. These Esprit scopes seem to be very good.

Its hard to go past a good APO for astrophotography. They just have enormous appeal.

Greg.

[Addos]

thanks greg. have to say, my limited experience with it so far has me buying into the hype. really great scope, especially at the price.

[Benjamin]

A nice sharp Pencil! The ASI294 seems an excellent match for the focal length of the Esprit 120 without needing to unlock the binning mode. The Optolong filters seem to do a nice job also. Congrats :-)

[Addos]

thanks ben. am very happy with the switch to mono and no more lost resolution through interpolation. agree, very pleasantly surprised with the little optolongs. at 1/3 the cost of the antlia 3nm, great set of starter filters!

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A nice HOO pencil indeed!
Cheers,
Tim