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Esprit 100 First Light: Eagle and Swan, Brian Boyle

Esprit 100 First Light: Eagle and Swan

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Esprit 100 First Light: Eagle and Swan, Brian Boyle

Esprit 100 First Light: Eagle and Swan

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My long awaited Esprit 100 arrived on Saturday and, with only scattered cloud and 2hours before moonrise, I chanced my arm with first light on Sunday evening. Starting simple with the Eagle and Swan nebulae.

Due to time pressure, I probably didn't spend long enough on focus, but did achieve 2-2.5pix over the impressively flat field across my Canon 5D full frame sensor. With cloud coming and going I only got 90min on the target, but I am still very happy with this first light image.

Out of the box, this telescope is amazing to use. Now I need to get a Bahtinov mask to help improve that focus.

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