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Originally Posted by strongmanmike
Looks and appears to be performing great Baz 
Mike |
I'm pretty impressed with it now Mike. It's taken a lot of hard work to get this far. I have Logan to thank much for his time and effort coming to the observatory for hands-on help. Tex and Cathy as well.
More testing of the new optics. I still have lots of room for tweaking the focus, but I am still fighting a sky full of moonlight and moisture/smoke. Too many people in our bush capital still using wood fires for heating.
The first picture is a single sub of M83 Southern Pinwheel Galaxy of ten minutes, guided using the SBIG ST-i guide camera on Orion delux OAG and Orion Starshoot (V1) as the main imager.
The second image is a single five minute sub of the Carina nebula.
Normally I would take twenty or thirty subs for stacking along with dark, flat and offset/bias frames under much better dark-sky conditions, so I'm pretty excited to see this level of detail, brightness and colour at the bottom of the pile.
Focus and collimation both need work, but that will come in time.
Are you completely without a camera?
