Why NGC5897 in Libra you may ask? Because it's where the scope was pointed.
NGC5897 is a little globular, mag 8.6 and about 12.5 minutes of arc in size. Just to the right of Saturn at the moment.
I've just retro-fitted a new GSO crayford focuser to my old 6" F5 Newtonian. The old PVC pipe focuser was giving me "endless frustration" (not the words I want to use
). This new focuser is so smooooth to use I feel spoiled. I don't have a coma corrector for it yet so pleeze egg-scuse the coma.
The scope minus the focuser is 25 years old, using Meade optics. The scope uses a hexagonal wooden tube. It needs a repaint too.
Details, a crop of the full frame to get rid of some coma, 35 frames of 30 seconds each at ISO 1600, 6" F5 newt, Pentax K-x, unguided. I will have to revisit this object when the Moon is clear of the area.
