Patrick Holland
10/10/2010 5:56:48 PM
I haven't posted a new image in quite a while. Until last night, I've been in Alt-Az...Now the 10" LX200ACF is mounted on a wedge and an autoguider was installed. I physically did the work myself by have to give thanks to John Moody and Mark Sibole for their guidance. Before yesterday, I was taking up to 50 second subs, last night, I was taking 330 second subs - quite the difference. The Rosetta is realistically not attainable in Alt-Az without Hyperstar. Here is a quick and dirty processing job (I'll do more work on it later). It was very different to see my old pal (10" LX200) at strange angles while the polar alignment was being done but it did the job nicely. The following equipment was used to get this image...
Explore Scientific 80mm APO riding piggyback on the 10" LX200ACF. The 10" was setup with the Meade .63 focal reducer and Meade DSI 1 camera with PHD (for autoguiding). The Canon XSi was on the Explore Scientific 80mm APO. The image consists of 34-330 second light subs, 10-330 second darks and 16 flats. Processing done in Images Plus 3.80a. No further processing done as of yet.
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