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Testing New 10” f5 Klaus Helmerich Carbon Fibre Newt
Finally got to test focus , collimation , coma and general performance of my new 10” f5 KH Carbon fibre newt last night in Sydney.
I used my existing EQ6-R mount which just handled this big OTA ( I think in wind forget it ) The new 10” newt is going down south to my Dome on a bigger mount , the EQ8-R pro when it finally arrives.
Still haven’t set up guiding or the electronic focuser yet so just took some short unguided exposures on M8 Lagoon to test all of the above
Pretty happy with the results with this first test under Bortle 7/8 skies, although framing wasn’t that good
19 x 40 sec unguided subs
No calibration frames
ZWOASI2600MC cooled to -10C , Gain 100 LRN
L Extreme filter ( want to test focus with and without filters )
Stacked in DSS
Processed in Startools V1.7 Compose OSC Bi Colour NB
Bi colour NB version in SHO matrix
Synthetic Luminance version
Comments Welcome
Thanks
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