This is first light on Mick's NEQ6 mount. It worked well first time, no messing about and gave me 0.8arcsec RMS guiding. It's a real bummer he never got the pleasure of using it.
It was a good choice of target given the Moon situation and slight murkiness. I used high pass sharpening for the first time. This image hasn't been cropped for a change, for some reason I am getting good stars right to the edge (OK so they are not Tak sharp...). I can only put this down to very careful collimation as nothing else has changed on my old SCT.
Image date, time and location: 20151003 Manche France
Telescope aperture and focal ratio: Meade LX90 8", Baader Alan Gee II Telecompressor f5.6
Camera and filters used: Canon 1000D Modded, no filters
Processing applied: Deep Sky Stacker, Photoshop CS2, Irfanview
(http://gallery.orpington-astronomy.org.uk/albums/userpics/10050/normal_M52_Manche_20151003_CS2.png) (http://gallery.orpington-astronomy.org.uk/albums/userpics/10050/M52_Manche_20151003_CS2.png)
shock horror... Its not the moon..... :-)
Great image dunc & nice 1st light...
BTW that is first light for the mount - It was previously owned by my boss at work - It spent 2 years sitting in the office not being used - in fact I powered it up once to do some visual with it - So glad its being used at last...
John
well done Duncan, glad about the mount.
Fay
Looks like that mount is working well Duncan. Give deconvolution a go as well as high pass sharpening, it's certainly more work but can give excellent results.
Robert
A great first light for that mount!
Mark