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Originally Posted by Bassnut
look, Im nitpicking, dont get all precious on me Mike ;-). its all good. Expecting great things based on these teaser images.
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Not precious just clear about where you stand on the field size issue
Yeh teasers is a good description. Good seeing, a dark sky and a few hours of exposure should be nock ya sox off stuff by the looks of things?
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Originally Posted by RobF
Looking very very nice if those are your first light "quickies" Mike! We're all keen to see where you take us when you get this beast up to warp speed. I can handle the odd circle around a bright star if the images are all as crisp as this. Given moon, poor seeing, etc you HAVE to be happy with those!?
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You bet Rob, as many know I had been praying and hoping and saying Hail Mary's and Our Fathers and my prayers were answered - how fitting for Easter
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Originally Posted by John Hothersall
Those look very good for quickie tests and the colour in the LRGB is rich. AG12 collects gallons of light butI know collimation is key with those big sensors. Will have to take a look at your review.
John.
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Cheers John
You bet, Collimation is an issue for sure especially with such a large sensor, the collimation quality you see in these samples was provide by the Catseye Tools alone, on-camera tweeking would probably improve things a little but when I saw how close I was I didn't want to lose it.... perhaps I will always see some slight variations in the outer stars but if it stays as little as is visible in these test shots... I can live with it
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Originally Posted by richardo
Wooooooowww, mmmmm love the spikes Mike 
This is pure testimony to what very well crafted fast optics in a reflector package can do... also the speed and quality in which detail can be obtained.
For first light bra, your away and really rockin'.
Super tight stars and focus. I wouldn't be too worried about the very slight elongation I can only see in the corners to the Cats paw... a huge chip which will show everything.
Mate, the image of the cats Paw for only 20min, wow.... who needs to do heaps of hours... not when things come in this good.
Love your Omega.... perfect!! Not a sign of elongation, had this spot on Same with your Cent A, spot on
I feel really happy for you Mike.... this is going to be a great ride for you and all of us looking on.
Great stuff and am staying quietly tuned for your next installments 
Go forth and image muchly...
All the best,
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Ah my fellow fast Newt bretheren
So far it
appears to be the Holy Grail
, as I said to John above, the level of star uniformity is certainly not absolutely perfect but man, I couldn't have hoped for a better first light considering, besides the sensor is so massive and the camera plus CFW so heavy, the design of this thing has held up reasonably well I think?
I will do anther test session at Mums and then hopefully get back out to darker skies and hammer the heavens
Cheers Mike
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Originally Posted by CoolhandJo
The Omega is outstanding. Endless possibilities now |
Thanks Dr Paulie...just to think of a cool first light at a dark site....
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Originally Posted by telecasterguru
Mike,
Great first up images. I love the colour in Cent A.
Gotta love the fast wide field.
Frank
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Cheers Frank
You meant Omega Cen I assume
Yeh the colour seamed easy to extract too
1.85 X 1.85deg is a pretty massive field, Centaurus A (in this short light polluted exposure) looks like a football sailing across a football ground
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Originally Posted by atalas
Congrats on the new scope Big Mike!!! details in the first light shots are great...looking forward to some splendid work in the near future...hurry up!
ps...loose the spiky artifacts ! lol
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Cheers big Louie (I call you that becasue Arnold Swarzenegger said it too Lou Ferrigno in Pumping Iron
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Ok, ok I'm onto it already!!!
Re the spikes they look good on mediam and dimmer stars, we will see what they lookm like on bright stars
Mike