All,
I headed on over to JohnG's place out in Cootamundra over the weekend and was lucky enough to make use of his lovely dark skies with an SQM reading of 21.29 on Sunday night.
This was first light for my new 5" APO (ED127).
All I can say is that this scope is awesome. It delivers an excellent flat field, though there is slight elongation that I noticed on the right hand side of the frame. Though, this could have been me not tightening the lock for the camera tight enough.
My dew heater was not put on correctly (about an inch behind the objective lens) and as a result, I was all dewed out. I managed 2 hours and 20 minutes.
Thank you so much John, for your kindness, help and hospitality.
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Comments and critique, welcome.
Regards,
Humayun