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Originally Posted by batema
I think it looks great in both formats. I know the weather has been less than helpful in regards to imaging as has been my 3 week old broken leg, but i would love to know your thought on the neq6 and fsq combination particularly on faint nebula. Exciting times. ahead for you Rob.
Mark
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Hi Mark
Hope the leg is back in action properly when the weather finally does clear. Must make life at the school challenging.
I've been debated upgrade options for a long time and realised changing any one thing would effectively show up the limitations of the others (Talking mainly mount/camera/OTA here).
The Newt allowed me to get in deep and narrow on a lot of things, but playing with Zenithstar refractors in recent years showed me the other (dark?!) side of seeing more FOV. As nice as it would be to have a bigger chip camera to take advantage of the big flat FSQ field, the QHY9 gives nice resolution detail even with the reducer in, and a field with about 5 times the area of the Newt.
Without a larger camera its debatable how you go on faint stuff. The 8" Newt is of course pulling in more light, but processing is challenging to handle vignetting. In the end I'm hoping the FSQ gives me a future upgrade path once I win the lotto
As for the NEQ6, it purrs along nicely handling the FSQ, but the PE is actually quite a bit worse than my trusty HEQ5. All the more reason to zoom out and destress on a short focal length holiday for a while
