[David Fitz-Henr]

Originally Posted by petershah

a fabulous image, crisp deep and colourful......a real pleasure to look at

Thanks Peter!

Originally Posted by gregbradley

That's very nice.

I reckon a crop of that blue reflection neb and delicate pink ribbon type nebula would be nice. It could probably be enhanced slightly with some contrast/sharpening and be very nice all by itself. Your setup has captured detail in that area usually only seen with large RCOS scopes.
It must be a very sharp mirror.

Greg.

Thanks Greg, I may add a couple of crops to my pbase site. .. and yes, the main mirror was figurerd by Marc Suchting, the secondary mirror is by Antares Optics (~1/25 wave p-p) and there has been a lot of thought put into the rest of the design as well (baffling, tube / structure, air flow, etc).