First Light New Rig NGC 6744 Pavo Galaxy
Still have some tuning and testing to do on my new rig but here’s my first light captured from the NexDome South Coast NSW. There’s always a bit of anxiety setting up a new rig but everything worked perfectly the first time which is amazing, I’m usually fixing gremlins or focus or some other issue
Wednesday night
No Moon
Bortle 3/4
Conditions average but improved after 1am ( should have collected more data but I was struggling at 2.00am, felt a bit crook so shut down )
10” f5 Klaus Helmerich Carbon Fibre Newt ( focal length 1250mm )
Skywatcher EQ8-R Pro mount
ZWOASI2600MC cooled to -10C , Gain 0 HDR
No filter
TS Optics GPU coma corrector
ZWO EAF focuser
42 x 5 minute dithered guided subs
40 x Flats
60 x Bias
EQMOD, Stellarium, APT
PHD2 Multistar guiding ( 0.65 to 0.75 ) worms pretty stable ,just need fine tuning , only discarded 3 subs with ever so slightly bloated stars
Stacked in DSS
Processed in Startools V1.7 OSC linear data set
Pretty happy with the first image ( more data would have been nice )
Comments welcome
Thanks
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