[Omaroo (Chris Malikoff)]

First cab off the rank is less than stellar, but it's given me a quick insight as to what I will be able to achieve with the apparatus.

I didn't bother too much with focus, polar alignment or guiding, darks or flats, so please excuse the quality of the images.

What I did want to see was what the two different cameras saw and captured. Their alignment was pretty good in relation to each other. The Canon was at prime focus on the C8 at f/6.3 and the Nikon was off to the side attached to the Nikkor 300ED prime lens at f/4.5. This combination resulted in pretty good comparison shots, with the Canon giving the higher mag and the Nikon giving the widefield.

This way, I can have two shots of the same objects, at the same time - each at full resolution and the narrowfield not just a crop of the widefield.

Pic 1) Nikon widefield

Pic 2) Canon narrowfield

Pic 3) The current rig