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Thanks guys. It was taken with a vixen F6.4 FR. I didn't center M42 well but I guess it's still not that bad.
This little MAK is certainly worth $150 that I paid for it 3 weeks ago. It's much less than a kilo, it's quite fast and I don't need to use any adapters to atach it to my QHY5. Moreover there is no noticeable mirror shift presented in its focuser.
Also one day I was complying to Jeff when he came to pick up some of my stuff that it's strange that with such a fast scope it's hard to find a guiding star.
It seems I was wrong. May be it was hard because of bad weather or because I wasn't using any tube shield. However two days ago with a tube shield and clear sky there was plenty of stars with 1 sec exposure to choose from.
And the most thing I love about this MAK that it's so small that it can fit under my VC200L. For me it means that I can still use that nice OTA handle.
I will try to do M42 the next time too. 3 of 9 light frames in the last stack were taken with solid clouds covering M42 least 40% of these frames exposures. I guess it will look much better if it's perfectly centered and taken without any clouds :-)
cheers,
Mike
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