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Old 21-03-2012, 12:26 AM
Martin Pugh
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First Light - Canon 50mm Lens and ST8300

Hi all
for those of you who have followed the long thread in the Equipment forum will know that I have been in pursuit of a widefield solution for sometime.

With your help, I managed to get satisfactory results out of the Canon 50mm f1.2 L lens when paired with an SBIG ST8300.

So, having worked through that, I took my first HaRGB image tonight - nice and quick i.e 60:10:10:10 minutes centred on Eta Carinae.

http://www.martinpughastrophotograph...T8300HaRGB.jpg

The RGB 60 second subs were unguided and each set of integrations was manually focussed (havent sorted that out yet).
Its a bit noisy I think, but I am fairly happy I have the widefield solution I was looking for with this now, so thanks to you all who contributed to that.
cheers
Martin
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