Imaging telescopes or lenses: SkyWatcher Esprit 150 ED APO Triplet
Imaging cameras: ZWO ASI 071 MC Pro Color Cool
Mounts: MESU OPTICS Mesu 200
Guiding telescopes or lenses: SkyWatcher 80/400 achromatic
Guiding cameras: QHY-5-L-II-M QHY5-II Mono
Software: PixInsight 01.08 Ripley · PHOTOSHOP CS5
Dates:Feb. 28, 2019
Frames: 42x300"
Integration: 3.5 hours
Avg. Moon age: 24.01 days
Avg. Moon phase: 30.67%
Astrometry.net job: 2557407
Resolution: 3685x2494
Locations: Home Observatory, Hole, Värmland, Sweden
Data source: Backyard
Finally yesterday I got it all together. So after a lot of software downloads and settings, and some driling and threading, the Mesu 200 moved from the livingroom table to the pier. My great worries of moving from the EQ8 handset to a computer controlled mount was less stressful that I imagined and just after midnight I had enough confidence in what I was doing to start imaging. The sky was dark (SQM 21.4) but I still did not get good guiding (around 1") and it was quite variable, so I think (hope) seeing was causing this, but it could also be that I had not configured PHD2 correctly. I may get a chance to play with that tonight.
In any case, here is the first light. 3.5 hours (42 x 5 min) with the ASI071 MCpro on the Esprit 150, and a Mesu 200.
Just did a annotated plate solve in PI and there are actually 12 visible galaxies in the image in addition to NGC 2903. The most obvious smaller galaxy is the irregular galaxy PGC 27115 just above NGC 2903.
Description: cropped away a bit of the edges
Description: Brighter sky
| The OSC Club (One Shot Camera) |
| ASI 071 mcc |
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