I have been working on dialling in the Quad TCC (APs name for their reducer/compressor) on my AP130GT F6.3.
The TCC is an impressive piece of astro gear and I used one in the past on the AP140 I had.
Its quite sensitive to distancing though, 1mm+/-. The QHY600m camera is a bit sensitive to tilt but it seemed to take the same corrections as my FLI cameras so I take that to mean QHY's stated tight tolerance for sensor orthogonality to be spot on. There is a tiny bit left to tune out but no biggie and focus was also very stable although I can get it more stably spot on once my electronic focuser is fitted. Manually focused for now just once early evening.
I took 3 sets of images over the last few nights. F4.5 at 130mm is a great combo with this QHY600 camera. At 1x1 binning it gives 1.31 arc secs/pixel which seems to be the sweet spot.
I only took a small amount of colour because I was planning on doing full narrowband as I took this when it was almost full moon and did not expect the RGB to be any good. But it was surprisingly.
Taken at my home observatory on a PME mount.
https://pbase.com/gregbradley/image/171751483/large regular size
https://pbase.com/gregbradley/image/171751483/original large size. Zoom in and surf around.
There are some interesting ripples in between the Lagoon and the Trifid.
Here are the links to the Ha image which has a lot of detail:
https://pbase.com/image/171751518/large regular size.
https://pbase.com/image/171751518/original large size for zooming in.
This camera/scope setup is very sensitive. A 30 second image holds a surprising amount of detail. A single 300 second image
is like a much longer exposure from previous cameras and setups.
Greg.