M20

[spearo (Frank)]

Hello Everyone

It's been a while for me but I'm still here...
I've been working on a home-made observatory during weekends and too hard during the week to save for an upgrade of my mount....ok, enough excuses...

Here's last night's efforts,
M20 at F/10 on the C9.25, on the trusty old CG5 autoguided through a WO 80mm (thanks JohnG) and Toucam using Guidedog. Canon EOS 20Da (thanks Striker) 3x10min and 6x7 min ISO 800.

(Getting Guidedog and my CG5 to work at their best is definitely a "Dark Art", part science, part mysticism (i include the frequent curses in there))

It's still not as good as I'd like it, some trailling showing when I image at F/10. I'm seriously starting to think of a G11, a Titan, an NJP or EM400...

Must get back to my experiments to transform lead into gold...

cheers
frank

[2020BC (Bill Christie)]

Worth the wait, Frank.

[FOOTPRINT]

Hi Frank,
Well done, looks like the guiding went off O.K., stars nice and round no trailing, the 20da takes a mighty picture, all in all great colour good contrast, and at F-10 I know its not easy, keep em coming.

cheers.......Jim

[RB (Andrew)]

Very nice Frank, great colours, lovely image scale at f/10, well done.
I'm toying with the idea of a roll-off shed too, sick of setting up, tearing down the gear each night.

You'll love any one of those mounts, especially the Titan or EM 400 !

[Dr Nick (Nick)]

The blue part came out really well in that one!

[Ric]

A ripper Frank, as Nick said the blue stands out a treat, you can even see it behind the red of the nebula.

Very nice indeed.

[spearo (Frank)]

Thanks everyone,
much appreciated. I feel like i'm having to relearn all the basics it's been such an imaging drought for me lately!
thanks for looking
cheers
frank