Thanks Wayne , John and Steve.
John, I’m developing a very healthy respect for folk imaging at long focal lengths
I’ve had the SCT out for three nights and jeeeez it’s been a painful experience trying to image at f/10. My resultant, heavily edited images are more an expose of PI’s remarkable capabilities than the quality of raw images out of my camera. I’m impressed the ASIAIR can routinely get my mount tracking at around 0.4-0.6rms (better than Stellarmate/Ekos). But at f/10, even that kind of guiding isn’t sufficient for sharp images out of the camera - the stars are messy. Hence I’ve already ordered the Celestron 0.7 reducer … should be here this week … and typically, won’t be a clear night until 2 Jan.
Steve, not a chance
