well its been three weeks and finally last night I got to have a real go with the new camera
so here it is ...my first ever cooled CCD image with my new QHY 8-and that too with my even newer Baader 7nm H Alpha filter from OPT which arrived a couple of days ago
larger image
http://www.flickr.com/photos/9178472...89812/sizes/l/
as it turns out the session was greatly curtailed-first my powerpack died and I had to replace it , then I had trouble with focusing my guide camera, and by the time I was set up polar aligned and ready to image there was cloud-it did clear after midnight-may be 20 minutes after I packed up so there you go.
so while it wasn't a really full on satisfying session I got 50 minutes of data-even though at least twenty minutes was through cloud.
Details
target :NGC 3324 and region
scope ED80
optics-William Optics 0.8 reducer, Baader 7 nm H Alpha Filter
Mount CG5 autoguided
location-Winston Hills
capture software-Nebulosity
Processing-Nebulosity and Photoshop
comments and suggestions welcome...this is new ground right here
Narayan
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