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Old 13-10-2012, 08:04 PM
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M42 Orion - Closeup

First light with the Vixen VC200L.

Few problems though. Soft focus, collimation is out (diamond stars/elongated stars).
Spent 4 hours last night trying to get it perfect. It arrived to me so far out of collimation that i think they forgot to collimate it back at Vixen!
I may need to invest in a Cheshire eyepiece. I think collimation is pretty damn close - but obviously it isn't.

Some bright stars have black hole syndrome. That's a processing fault.
Core blew out (whouda thunk it'). Tried to fix it a bit, could of made it worse.

Overall - happy with the scope and the image.
That being said, in a few months i'll revisit it with my ED80 and do 10min subs.

3hrs of data, 5min subs LRGB: 15:6:6:6

100%: http://core-au.net/astro/Collection/...ula/vc200l.jpg
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Old 13-10-2012, 10:25 PM
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Still a nice image, Nathan
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Old 15-10-2012, 06:03 AM
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Nice work Nathan, a lovely Orion!
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