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Originally Posted by Bassnut
Yeah, I'm surprised too  . Really Mike, a 12" portable fork/wedge Meade at 3m FL with external guide for long exposure DSO as a starter?.
Differential flexure is just the start, PE ?.
I have some experience too, sounds like the fastest way to dso imaging hell to me experienced or not, specially not  |
Clearly our experiences were different
On the native fork, reduced to between F4 - F6.7 (Meade, Optec and Lumicon reducers) and using an 80ED guide scope piggyback plus the small chip Starlightxpress camera I was quite happy with the performance and although my imaging skills were just developing then (2004), I think the images attest to that. I generally used 4min exposures this seemed to be the sweet spot but sometimes 5min and occasionally 10min. The mount autoguided very well at these focal lengths.
All the new stuff available today plus the better optics of the ACF to cover larger chips = a very capable outfit actually, both for visual and imaging
Mike