I’ve been testing the William Optic Redcat 51mm APO refractor so far with the full frame QHY128C one shot color CMOS, but I decided to fit the QHY16200A providing us with an ultra wide field multi filter Monochrome CCD camera.
It figures we have been clouded out for most of the nights since I fitted the QHY16200 on the Redcat and all I have so far on the test subject (Lagoon and Trifid Nebulae) is some H-Alpha data, after doing a quick search I found some unprocessed data of the M8 M20 region using the QHY128C before I swapped over cameras so for the first time ever I registered and combined the data from a CMOS camera with a CCD using the QHY16200 CCD Ha data with the color data from the QHY128C full frame CMOS for some pleasing results seen here against an immense backdrop of dust in the Sagittarius region of the milky way.
I was very impressed with the SNR and high level of detail obtained with only 14 x 10 minute exposures in H-Alpha using the Redcat (see H-Alpha crop).
The combination of the Redcat and QHY16200A gives a whopping 6.2 x 5.0 degree field of view and an image scale of 4.95 arcsec/pix.
M8 M20 with QHY16200 H-Alpha
www.flickr.com/photos/terryhancock/48389458491/in/datepos...M8 M20 with QHY16200 H-Alpha crop
www.flickr.com/photos/terryhancock/48389596912/in/datepos...M8 and M20 region with QHY128
www.flickr.com/photos/terryhancock/48389598132/in/datepos...M8 M20 with QHY16200 and QHY128C combined
www.flickr.com/photos/terryhancock/48389598452/in/datepos...Technical Information using QHY128C
Location: GrandMesaobservatory.com, Purdy Mesa, Colorado
Captured June 27th 2019
QHY128C Full Frame One Shot Color COLDMOS cooled to -20C
Size: 6036x4028 pixels
Pixel Size: 5.97 x 5.97 um
Gain 1208, Offset 60
Darks, Bias and Flat Calibration
22 x 600 sec
Optics: William Optics Redcat 51 APO 250mm F4.9
williamoptics.com/redcat-51Image Acquisition Maxim DL 6
Pre Processing Pixinsight
Post Processing Photoshop CC
Technical Information using QHY16200A
Location: GrandMesaobservatory.com, Purdy Mesa, Colorado
Captured July 4th 2019
QHY16200A 7 position Monochrome CCD cooled to -15C
Size: 4540x3630 pixels
Pixel Size: 6.0 x 6.0 um
Gain 0, Offset 132
Darks, Bias and Flat Calibration
14 x 600 sec
Optics: William Optics Redcat 51 APO 250mm F4.9
williamoptics.com/redcat-51Image Acquisition Maxim DL 6
Pre Processing Pixinsight
Post Processing Photoshop CC
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