1st Light FS-128 and 47 Tuc

[cventer]

Gave the FS-128 I bought from James here a few days ago a shakedown last night from the burbs in melbourne

Seeing was horrible, Moon was up about 30 degrees buy time I was ready to image.

Grabbed 19 x 2min and 10 x 30 sec with QHY10 osc at -20

Happy with scope :) see pic attached of the new beast

[Alchemy]

Looks like all is working well, seems you have a nice flat field edge to edge; once the moon has gone you will no doubt give it a good workout, it's always a delight to have a new peice of equipment to play with.

Best of luck with imaging in Melbourne though, every time I go down there at night I'm astounded by how few stars you can visually see down there, I don't know how you go off the galactic plane where there's less to guide from.

Watch with interest the new scopes progress, you're obviously a dedicated TAK fan.

Clive

[Ross G]

Impressive looking setup.

The shots show you will be getting some amazing quality photos.

Good luck.

Ross.

[cventer]

re flat field. I wish. That is heavily cropped in the center region. The corners look like hot dogs :)

The FS-102 and 128 need a flattener or reducer/flattener. I have used the TOA 130 reducer flattener and that gives a nice flat field edge to edge.

I hear you re skys of melbourne. I am only 10 min from city and fight light pollution. I spend 5 times longer processing an image from Melbourne than from dark sky.

Using a OSC seems to make handling processing from light polluted area worse. Blue seems to suffer the most and its hard to get decent star color. There are a lot of nice blue stars in 47 Tuc but bringing them out using OSC is very difficult as you cant process a blue channel of data the same way you can using separate LRGB filters.

Still I enjoy the challenge of seeign what I can get from the burbs...

About to get a new cam with full Ha, O3 and SII filters which will allow me to do some narrow band imaging to cut through all this light pollution

[TrevorW]

Nice detail in core

[Lester]

Very nice, image and set-up.

[jamespierce]

This is a little bit inspiring - I'd always thought it would be pointless trying astrophotogrpahy here in inner Melb. We view planets, the moon and random bright interesting things, but really have to wait until we get out of town... Maybe I could be having some inner city fun...

[multiweb]

Wow! Really nice res there. Great colours too. Nice work. :thumbsup:

[LucasB]

That is a great start with the new set-up. Bet you can't wait for the moon to disappear for a little while. It is one very nice rig!!:thumbsup:
Lucas

[TinyBlueDot]

Yep, great start for sure. I was so close to having a nibble on this scope; Mr Taxman Refund was just a BIT too slow :shrug:...so I'm watching its imaging capabilities with a good deal of interest. Keep 'em coming. Melbourne's a right light-box, isn't it?? Again, nice work.

cheers