First Light Test for the AT65EDQ !

[atalas]

Hi Guys

Well I'm back from a dark site with my first test results of the AT65EDQ!

The test subject was a large emission nebula in the southern constellation of Carina called Eta Carina or, NGC 3372 If you would prefer.

To be fare to the little scope I'll be doing more test on It with better polar alignment because field rotation crept in on this night and because I needed to use and extender, I fear that the ccd chip wasn't quite flat to the plain....focus also a touch soft.

I want to also star test It to see how good the correction in the glass is,the collimation is and also If It has any(dare I say It)astigmatism which would be a real bummer.

Exposures were 10 minutes x 16 and flats,bias and bad pixel map were applied,pre processing done in AA4,Registar and post processing in CS4.

The StarlightXpress SXVF-M25c was used to capture exposures which were guided by a FS60CB on a GPDX/Skysensor.

A larger image can be found at my web site under most recent( www.atalas.net)


All thoughts would be appreciated.

[strongmanmike (Michael)]

This looks pretty good to me Louie, nice colours, framing and the perfect field of view, the issues you mention are pretty minor, the little scope looks like a keeper

Oi...there seems to be a name missing from that list on the side of your front page ..... ..here's $100

Mike

[atalas]

Hi Mike

Hey,100 bucks....I'd carry your counter weights for that much! ....no worries dude,I'll take care of It next server visit.

Yep,more test to do with the little scope and have some concerns like reflections,but I'll get around to finding out where there coming from sooner or later.

Thanks for the interest.

[AG Hybrid (Adrian)]

Gosh!!! I keep forgetting about how little of the nebula I can see / how big that nebula really is. Great wide field photo!

[atalas]

Thanks Adrian.