Greetings, had my first 'light' with Lar's old Tak TSA 120 last night. The CGEM seemed to handle it beautifully even with a 60mm scope and a modded guide scope on top plus the heavy focuser. Haven't got the hang of the focuser yet so was reliant on Bahnitov mask and Live view with Canon 1000D. Was a lot of water vapour around so seeing was not great, some clouds cut down my frames by about 50%.
Anyhoo, here, for your enjoyment, I present first light with Tak TSA 120 and Canon 1000D. Guided with mini guide scope and PHD/SSAG.
I moved my mount about 20 yards just before this session and used the plumb line/Solar noon method to get South again-have to say it worked pretty well. After a few tweaks only I was getting an RMS of 0.16-0.17 and a lovely flat line on PHD graph.
EXIF was about 16'c, 1013Hpa, and I was wearing green socks.
M83 and M104, approx 60 and 90 minutes of five minute lights, darks calibrated, hinky focus but what the heck! I am just glad got it all working in one night!
Enjoy!
Graz from Taz!
