M20 with the EdgeHD14 at F11

[pmrid]

This is a quick and dirty stack of all the subs (Ha, O3 and SII all lumped in together just to see what we might have). Taken tonight before the rain found me. I managed 6x10 mins per filter with an ATIK11002M with OAG on the EdgeHD1400 at F11.
Enjoy.
Peter

[RobF]

Looking great Peter - can't wait to see the colour rendition.
I've only just finished putting together my first ever NB colour image tonight, so keen to see how this works out.

[DavidTrap]

You are becoming the "narrow field king"!

How are you focusing this beast Peter? I think I saw something that looks like an electric focuser in a pic of your setup. It just looks the tiniest bit soft to me, or do you think that was the seeing of last night?

That rain was a bugger last night. I had my first night with the scope in the backyard and my computer in the house via a long USB cable - rather civilised. I was 30sec from finishing one run, when the guider alarm began to sound - lost guide star. I packed up as the faintest of rain began...

DT

[pmrid]

Thanks guys. Rob, you're ahead of me. I have yet to learn the arts and mysteries of colour combination/mapping etc. I was really just trying to get some sets of data together to take with me to the AAIC so I could "practice what others preach".

David: bit of both I think. I'm waiting till my next trip to Brisbane to visit Ron at Sirius and grab a Bahtinov mask for the 14". I have a motorised JMI focuser on it but because it's an EdgeHD scope and requires a fixed distance between the rear cell and imaging plane, I have to use the standard SCT focus knob for coarse focus and only use the JMI for the final tweak. But with a Bahtinov, I'm reasonably confident of getting pretty good focus.

Peter
Peter

[jjjnettie]

Lovely Peter!

[RobF]

I found this Don Goldman video (http://dg-imaging.astrodon.com/tutorials/#t9) a great insight into a flexible workflow for NB Peter. I haven't searched here - I'm sure there's a wealth of info others have provided, but up until now I really didn't "get it" how to control the colour assignment.

(Whatever Marc has been doing seems to have worked pretty good too....)

[ozstronomer]

Pete,

Great shot that camera/scope combo is really producing the goods :thumbsup:

No rain at crows nest, just cold :cold: ....at least the skies are great when the clouds go.