[marco (Marco Lorenzi)]

Originally Posted by avandonk

Officina Stellare have some images taken with the RH200 and MLI 11002_M camera which has the same 9 micron pixel size as the PLI 16803.

Images here
http://www.officinastellare.com/gallery.php

Here are two of these images upsized to full resolution ie 4008x2672

Double Cluster RGB 10:10:10 min 3MB

http://d1355990.i49.quadrahosting.co...1_11/DC_10.jpg

Cave Nebula LRGB 60:40:40:40 min 3 MB

http://d1355990.i49.quadrahosting.co...CaveNeb_10.jpg


Here is an animated gif with an image from Rob Gendler 3 MB

http://d1355990.i49.quadrahosting.co...11/CaveNeb.gif


Rob's image was taken with an RCOS 20RC with a focal length a bit more than six times that of the RH200. Details here

http://www.robgendlerastropics.com/CaveNM.html


It all looks very good to me so far. Only using the new system will give a better idea of what is possible.


Finally below the white area around the Cave Neb image is the area of the PLI 16803 4096x4096 pixels with the RH200. The second image shows Rob Gendler's image superimposed on the RH200 image with Registar.

Bert

My compliments for your new purchase Bert, I know personally the guys making these instruments and the company is very reliable.

All these pictures have been made by a well known Italian astrophotographer, his amazing shots (many with the RH) are available here: http://www.flickr.com/photos/astrojo...th/6235675606/

As far as I understood from him the problems of the border were due to the wrong filters used during the preliminary tests, in fact such a fast scope need large filters and when they tested it with a 24x36 camera the 50mm round filters literally cut part of the light creating the strange shapes of the corner. So this should not be a problem with your 50mm square filters.

I am curious to see how the veloce will perform with the large 16803 chip, afaik this camera was optimized for 24x36 formats so you will push it to the edge..

Keep us posted with your results

Clear skies
Marco