Looks quite promising
Is that the 100% frame?...it's hard to critically analyse the image quality at that image size though. Was it really taken through a 3nm Halpha filter or was that a typo? Skies are always black and stars tighter through a Halpha filter of course but if that was indeed taken through a 3nm Ha filter it speaks volumes for the fast F3.6 and 16" of aperture!
I understand the 16" ASA had some flexure problems..? This was on U-Tube:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iI0EyWufKPM
How did this flexure affect performance? Has this issue been sorted now and if so how was it acomplished? That FLI ProLine and filterwheel do look awesome on that big sexy red and black OTA!
Unfortunately I (and several others) got a lemon from ASA so I hope you guys at AART have had more luck? Would be nice to hear that ASA have sorted some of the problems they had in their early shipments as on paper they are the ultimate imaging scope in my opinion. Not sure on the new double vein spider though, I think the standard spider induced more natural looking diffraction spikes..?
I actually sent you guys an email a while back about these things but I never heard from you..?
Mike