Roland Christen (from Astro-Physics) took
this pic using a 10" LX200R OTA on his new Mach1 mount with the STL11k camera. He used the AP .75 telecompressor, and he will be making available an adaptor soon so that these OTA's can use this telecompressor.
Note: picture was binned 2x2 and shown at half size.
Here is a comment from the thread where he posted the pic:
"The results that I got with this tube assembly are quite nice, but not earth shatteringly so. For anyone who is knowledgeable in imaging, the scope does not match smaller CCD chips very well. On my ST10XE with its 6.8 micron pixels, the stars come out typically around 10 - 12 pixels FWHM. Binning 2x2 is necessary to make the image look half way reasonable on that chip, otherwise the image has very little aesthetic appeal. The scope really only comes alive with the STL1100, because it can cover that format nicely without producing horrendous comatic stars in the outer part of the field. Even here, with the 9 micron pixel size, it is best to bin 2x2 to get a reasonably sharp looking image. With binning I was getting around 4 pixel FWHM stars. The image that I posted was reduced to 1/2 size from the original 2x2 binning, so it is equivalent to 4x4 binning. What saves you, of course, is the long focal length, so you actually do get a very nice result with decent resolution."
Great all round scope, not sure how it would go with the STL though.
