Tulips anyone?

[Rocket Pooch]

Tulips from hamster jam, roll on France!

18x6 minute Ha, usual kit.

[Fay]

Fantastic Chris!!!!

[RobertM]

Nice one Chris, but which of the usual kit did you use ?

[JohnP]

Nice FOV & very 'tulip' like.... I can't believe how many hot pixels you had on the image that you sent me last night...

John

[MarkS]

Beautiful - that captures it nicely.  I can now see how it looks like a tulip.

[Rocket Pooch]

Nice one Chris, but which of the usual kit did you use ?

ED80 and Atik 314L, EQ6 Skyscan, still no SXD its being repaired.

Chris

[RobertM]

That's really bad about the SXD, firstly their QC should have been better and secondly how ling can it take to replace a locking screw !  So Chris, which mount have you an eye on ?  also are you really going for an 8300 based camera for wide field ?

[Rocket Pooch]

Hi,

Providing I don't talk my way out of a job this week (another story), I was thinking or replacing the EQ6 with something like a G42 or Altus, that would leave enough for the camera, if I did an AP I would not have the cash to get the camera.  Anyway so yes and yes I suppose, I think it will be a G42 not the Altus because of the experience dealing with the SXD problem.

Then I will be able to image at a full 2 meters or more at 9mpix !!!

But I would need to change all the filters etc!
 

[RobertM]

Imaging consistently at 2 meters is a whole new ball game as you're probably aware... another challenge !

Had a go the other day with the DSLR, 10 mins at F10 (2350mm) on the C9.25, trailing all over the place but better than I expected overall as there wasn't much coma over the frame.

[MarkS]

Imaging consistently at 2 meters is a whole new ball game as you're probably aware... another challenge !

In what ways does it present new challenges? 
My C11 with focal reducer effectively gives 1800mm so I must be constantly facing them!

[RobertM]

New challenges over imaging at less than 500-600mm as guiding has to be more accurate and movement in any component becomes more of an issue.

[MarkS]

Which reminds me - I had terrible problems with guiding and trailing last night.  Tonight I've just discovered why - my mount (left outside until tonight) was polar aligned on the wrong star!!!   

[Fay]

  I am surprised at you Mark, that sort of thing usually only happens to me!!

[JohnP]

Phew Mark...! - I'm glad it wasn't the ToUcam... That is a big mistake though unless you have Mag 6 skies in your garden then it's understandable.....

John

[Rocket Pooch]

The challenge is to get no drift on the subs and ensure that everything is absolutely bang on, i.e. every little pixel used with little elongation; I get a star centroid elongation of approx .0133 on my subs at the moment and thats at 600mm at 2 meters that going to goto a third of a pixel, ok call me fussy.