Explore Scientific 127 APO triplet
Explore Scientific 0.7 Focal Reducer / Field Flattener
Moonlite Crayford Focuser 2.5"
Celestron Five Position Skyris Filter Wheel
Losmandy G11GT Mount
Orion short-tube 80 (F/5) for guiding
Orion Starshoot Autoguider (SSAG)
Explore Scientific 50mm finder
Thunderbolt 2 dock
QHY Polemaster polar scope
QHY5IIIM174 (for imaging)
Skyshed
Next purchase:
Narrowing down my selection for a new imaging camera.
Galaxies:
Captured M51 on the evening of 16 April. One 4 minute exposure, calibrated with 4 minute dark and a bias image. Missed the opportunity to get flat field images, so I used some old ones for processing, still pretty satisfied with the result for this unguided image.
M51
Another session last night (20-21 April 18) to capture galaxies. Also unguided, but this time I did record some flat field images:
NGC4535
M94
Also, here is m81 and m82 in a 240 second exposure, also unguided:
Next session will be focused optimizing my guider parameters. Looking forward to successful imaging longer than four minutes...
PS: a gratuitous waxing crescent moon shot:
