Celestial hemisphere:  Northern  ·  Constellation: Cygnus (Cyg)  ·  Contains:  Crescent Nebula  ·  NGC 6888
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Crescent Nebula Wide Field, Jim Stevenson
Crescent Nebula Wide Field
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Crescent Nebula Wide Field

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Crescent Nebula Wide Field, Jim Stevenson
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Crescent Nebula Wide Field

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First decent image with my new GSO 6" f/4 Imaging Newtonian.

I've been looking at this telescope for awhile and reading about all the troubles people have with it, and also seeing some amazing images people have taken with it. If they can do it, why not me?!

I'm on my 3rd coma corrector now (I've spent about twice as much on coma correctors now as on the telescope!). The GSO coma corrector just fell flat - I was sure I'd made a terrible mistake and thought about trying to sell the rig after the first night. The Baader MPCC was much better, but I still wasn't satisfied. I was debating between a TS GPU and the Explore Scientific, then someone mentioned the TS MaxField and I went with that. I am very happy with it - minimal aberration even out to the corners.

I think there's still maybe a little improvement to be had by tweaking the sensor-corrector spacing, but if it doesn't get any better than this then I'm happy.

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Crescent Nebula Wide Field, Jim Stevenson

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