Small 'scope Omega

[Peter Ward]

I recently took my FSQ106 out of moth-balls as I was curious to see how it would go with the QHY183c OSC camera.

A sucker hole opened up over Sydney last night, and I managed to bag a few short test shots.

Have to say...despite the vanilla subject matter the result wasn't too shabby.
In many ways getting the data was too easy...I couldn't find where I put the autoguider cable...and at 500mm didn't need the guider anyway.

Almost point and click.
Processing the rather large data files took a while, but did not require anything more than "pack neatly and stack".

A few tweaks in Photoshop CC but that was it.

The link is here

[gregbradley]

Stunning resolution.
FSQ images are almost always undersampled
So the small pixels really work well and extract that
extra resolution the FSQ has.
Terrific result
Greg

[alpal]

Well done Peter,
a properly collimated FSQ106 is perhaps the best little scope around.

cheers
Allan

[Peter Ward]

Originally Posted by alpal

Well done Peter,
a properly collimated FSQ106 is perhaps the best little scope around.

cheers
Allan

Originally Posted by gregbradley

Stunning resolution.
FSQ images are almost always undersampled
So the small pixels really work well and extract that
extra resolution the FSQ has.
Terrific result
Greg

Ta guys. I recently sold my FSQ85...not sure whether that was a good decision or not ....
but couldn't part with the 106.

I'll probably put the funds into the Taka 645 0.7x Reducer....
not cheap but a perfectly corrected 60mm image circle at 370mm and F3.5 is very seductive

[multiweb (Marc)]

Nice one.