[Hagar (Doug)]

Originally Posted by multiweb

Beautiful shot Doug. Very nicely done. You got some serious details for such short integration time. Top work.

Thanks Marc. Hopefully I can add to it yet.

Originally Posted by Shiraz

Beauty Doug - that's a really fine image.

Thanks Shiraz

Originally Posted by alexch

A very nice image indeed!

Thanks Alex

Originally Posted by jjjnettie

Just beautiful!

Thanks Jeanette.

Originally Posted by Martin Pugh

Looks like all of your equipment (despite the wooden wedges) is working just fine.

A very nice image Doug.

cheers
Martin

Thanks Martin. Wedges gone and a new Feathertouch in residence. Now all I need is the field flattener and a light box for some flats.

Originally Posted by Tom Davis

Nice image!

How do you like the Atik 11k camera? How are you taking dark frames since it does not have a shutter? What image capture software do you use -- Maxim, CCDSoft, etc? How the cooling?

-Tom

Thanks Tom, I am very happy with the camera overall. It's operation is straight forward and I didn't have any problem hooking it up with my other gear. I use Maxin as capture software and do the rest in CCDStack and Photoshop. As for darks I now have a library which were taken with the camera sitting on the kitchen table. It has a nice screw on aluminium cover for the CCD window which works just fine for darks.

The biggest letdown with the camera is the cooling wich only has a delta of 38 degrees C it works as it should but with hot weather it may struggle to maintain -20, but it also has provision for water cooling which I have yet to try.