Leo triplet and the pier

[sadia]

Over the last few weeks I have been busy with building a pier for my setup (I will post a seperate thread on the pier/observatory later with more detail on this). After curing the concrete for a while I thought it would be a good idea to set up everything for a test run before i build the deck and observatory arround it just to be sure that no additional adjustment would be required. This also the first light for STL.

Attached is 7x 5min Lum data only @-25C

Scope: TSA102 with Reducer
Mount: G11
CCD: STL11000m
Guiding: FS60C with Orion SSAG
Image Scale: Pempro measured 2.92 arcsec/pix

[TrevorW]

Nice, tight guidng good detail

[astroron (Ron)]

It looks pretty good to me,nicely framed with round stars and plenty of
detail.
Well done.

[citivolus (Ric)]

You are making me jealous It looks like it will work out quite well for you.

Out of curiosity, what is your minimum observable angle over the fence?

[multiweb (Marc)]

Wow! Great details there. Love the pier too. I want one.

[Moon (James)]

Nice shot and an STL too! Way to go.
James

[mill (Martin)]

Nicely done and i am waiting for the colour version

[Moon (James)]

P.S. Did you give the self guiding a go? If not, try it, you'll like it.

[sadia]

Thank you for the kind comments guys. To answer few queries

- I can go as low as 30 deg on west on average for visual but well for imaging that's probably too close to the roof

- I tried the Self guiding, unfortunately TSA102 has quite a bit curvature towards the outer edge of STL making the guide chip almost unusable. Till i get better scope I think I am stuck with guide scope.

[allan gould]

Sadia,
Really nice shot and great pier. Looking forward to when the deck and observatory eventuate.