Thought I'd run out the 10" newt to see if it will play with the QHY gear.
I found that the QHY wheel won't seat properly on the moonlight focuser as the electronics box on the wheel hits almost everything on the focuser. That stopped my starlight camera from focusing but removing the nose from the qhy9 got it to focus, just. I'll check all that crap out in daylight.
This is M83, no coma correctors, flatteners or LP Filters, shot from the back yard in downtown Brisbane. First image is full frame with crazy multi coloured gradients (Did the flats with an 8" light box on a 10" scope) , second is a crop. I'm just posting this so people I was talking to earlier can have a look at what came out. Nothing special here.
This was shot with L binned 2x (6x600sec) and RBG binned 3X (6x150sec) QHY9 on a 10" F5 newt.
10minutes subs out of a 10" newt on an eq6
I put the whole show (cameras and all) on my bathroom scales and broke the scales
[edit] Collimination is out but it looks like the tube needs to be cut so why bother
