[allan gould]

I tried someing new with my QSI583wsg and M83. The attached photo is a quick draft of the data accumulated as I have another 2 hours of Luminance and 60 min of RGB yet to add to this shot. It was a test to see if I could use my 10" SCT with an f6.3 reducer and get round stars to the corner of the frame. It didn't help that meade have the wrong information on their website about the optimal distance between the reducer and CCD chip. They state 45mm whereas its actually 87mm. Thanks to Peter_4059 who made me a beautiful little 2" to T7 adapter I can now do it.
I use a combination of colour from my QHY8 and Luminace from the QSI and Registar to put together a first draft of this shot to see if it can be done. I was happy with the final outcome but really tired after last nights effort.
I will eventually post the final shot when I combine all the data and learn all the new techniques in Photoshop to put it together properly. Its a new minefield to trip through. There is a heap more detail that I can extract in the dust lane that I have yet do thanks to the detail the QSI and its small pixels can capture.
Comments welcome.