The Saucepan

[Retrograde (Pete)]

Hi All,

decided to put my mount through its paces last week as it has been a while since I used it. I managed to adjust the worm backlash and PHD2 seemed to calibrate much quicker than last time.
Unfortunately it turned out to be a 43 degree day so being such a warm evening it wasn't ideal for minimising DLSR sensor noise. I ended up taking the subs at only 100 ISO and successfully dithered most of the subs manually in PHD2.

I ended up with just 9 x 7min subs taken using my astro-modded Pentax K-5iis through a Pentax 165mm f2.8 6x7 lens stopped down to f6 using an aperture mask.
Larger version: http://www.astrobin.com/full/278971/0/

[leon]

Pete I love a good wide field, beautiful image.

leon

[RickS (Rick)]

A very nice image, Pete

[Ryderscope (Rodney)]

That's a pretty good wide field image Pete.

[Atmos (Colin)]

Picking up the background Ha quite nicely. Nice wide field

[Retrograde (Pete)]

Originally Posted by leon

Pete I love a good wide field, beautiful image.

leon

Thanks very much Leon.

Originally Posted by RickS

A very nice image, Pete

Thanks Rick!

Originally Posted by Ryderscope

That's a pretty good wide field image Pete.

Thank-you Rodney.

Originally Posted by Atmos

Picking up the background Ha quite nicely. Nice wide field

Thanks Colin. The modded DLSR is certainly paying dividends. Would have liked some more data (& some shorter exposures for the core of M42) but happy with the result given the conditions.