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Old 19-04-2020, 10:00 AM
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Originally Posted by Andy01 View Post
Looks promising Greg - bring on the colour!
Thanks Andy. I got some colour last night. Seeing wasn't as good so I might take some more of some of them.

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Originally Posted by Atmos View Post
Looking good Greg, I've got a QHY183M on the way at the moment so I'm hoping to join the club shortly

You look like you have a fraction amount of tilt on the bottom of the frame. It's not much and it's a tiny sensor but you've got the backing system down pat so it may not take more than 15 minutes
Yes there is a very small amount. I'll see if I can fix it in under 10 minutes and get back to you!

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Originally Posted by Placidus View Post
Looking very fine - smooth and detailed. A great first light with a new camera.

It seems to be a winner under the right conditions and scopes. I don't think it will match the CDK 17 or 20. 2x2 binning in good seeing possibly. I get away with .42 arc sec/pixel on my CDK17 with sharper results at 6 microns compared to 9 micron pixels on most nights of decent seeing.

The links to the medium and full size images seem to be the same file.
Thanks Mike. I just checked the links and they seem fine. One is simply the larger displayed image or you can click on "original" on the bottom of the displayed image on PBase.

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Originally Posted by cometcatcher View Post
Nice to see what my camera can do on a good rig. Great image.
Thanks Kevin. I am wanting to bring out the absolute best performance of the AP Honders. Like anything in this game optimisation is the key.

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Originally Posted by multiweb View Post
Really nice details. Looks like a keeper.
Thanks Marc. Still learning the camera but now is a good time to get one as there are plenty who have experience with these cameras that can guide you and get it going quickly.

The software support for it also seems to be of a high standard.

The main difficulty I am having is focus. Its harder to focus on these small pixels for some reason. Plus CCDsoft won't run it and I have been using CCDsoft with its large displayed images to focus my scopes for some time.
Perhaps time to master FocusMax! or @focus in the Sky X.
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