[Shiraz (Ray)]

Originally Posted by IanP

Looks like a very handy system, Ray ..
Very nice M104

thanks Ian - so far so good

Originally Posted by gregbradley

Winner!

You're onto a winner there Ray. Beautiful tight stars and great rez. That M104 shot is very good.

Greg.

Hi Greg. It seems to be working OK - need more data though

Originally Posted by alistairsam

Nice results Ray, love the tiny stars.
How bad is the vignetting with the RCC1, would be minimal with the small chip? I presume your focal point would be quite a bit out to prevent the RCC1 falling in the light path. any pics of the setup?
Cheers
Alistair

will post images later. the RCC1 only intrudes slightly - the scope was designed to put the focal plane a long way out. I was considering shortening the tube, but could not bring myself to cut that beautiful CF - probably leave it as is for now.

Originally Posted by RickS

That's a great first light, Ray! Looking forward to what you can produce with that set up...

Cheers,
Rick.

Thanks for the encouragement Rick

Originally Posted by alpal

That detail is very nice.
You should do well with this setup.

thanks Allan - we shall see...

Originally Posted by allan gould

Excellent image with nice detail throughout.

Thanks for the comments Allan.

Originally Posted by Bassnut

Geez, for 2min subs, 2.5 arcsec seeing and straight off the chip (eta) on a skywatcher, thats pretty awesome . Your game to crop a first light with no processing like that, and you got away with it . Very well done, bodes well.

Would have liked longer subs, but wanted to get the mount out of the equation - needed something bright and Eta fitted the bill. thanks for the encouragement.

Originally Posted by strongmanmike

Yeah, what Fred said

Looks great...now, just get that colour combining down pat and you are on a winning imaging machine I recon, SX cameras are pretty ok too

Mike

Colour aaaugh! guess I'll have to do it sometime.. Yep, the SX is a nice little cam and works well at 1m fl

Originally Posted by atalas

Off to a great start!

Hi Louie thanks for the comment.