[cventer]

I have had my FSQ now for a couple of weeks and was wiating for my STF-8300 to arrive before first light.

Curiosity got the best of me though so last night was clear. I set about mounting it on my PMX, sorting out robofocus, mounting mount hub pro and guidescope on it. Another 40 min of figuring out right adaptor spacings for my ST-2000XM to come to focus and it was about 12:30 am.

Moon was still up and I had to image something, so pointed it at M42 with Ha filter.

I nearly did a little dance for joy when the first 5 min sub frame downloaded.

This scope is going to be as awesome as I thought it would be. Dead flat field and lovely sharp optics.

Attached below is 6 x 5 min Ha, dark subracted, mean combined, no flats and some DDP and thats it.

This is a resized version. Will pop up full frame later.

Not presenting this as a finished image but can't contain my excitement.. I am looking forward to some nice images with this little baby...