[allan gould]

On Friday Night I used my new 127mm Apo scope with Lumicon focal reducer and Watec 120N+ camera to see if I could image through the light polution of Brisbane. NGC5090 and ngc5128 were both 200x10 sec integrations while M4 and ngc4945 were only 10x10sec integrations. The reasons for the latter two not being so many integrations was that I wanted to preserve the bar of stars across the middle of M4 and when shooting ngc4945 it was almost vetical and the scope was about 2mm from the tripod leg (forgot to put the vixen pier on the mount).
I was pleased would be mildly saying it. Ngc5090 and its three faint companions were mag 13.2 galaxies which I was happy with.
The one shot of ngc5128 has been further stretched to show the "egg shaped nebulosity" rarely shown with this galaxy.
I have to go to a dark site and really test ou this camera but it so easy to use and has great software in comparison to my DSI Pro and SBig is a real doddle. Also very, very pleased with the new 5" apo scope as these shots were taken with no IR filter in place.
Regards
Allan