Recently, I sent a set of remote equipment to Yunnan province. Before my new telescope arrived, I borrowed a 130 f/2.8 HNT from SharpStar and tested it with my new QHY268M camera and Optolong LRGB filters.

The six-panel is the result of the test photography in February.

Top left: the famous Orion Nebula M42/43, located below the belt of the hunter, about 1350 light-years from Earth, the nearest star-forming region.

Upper center: the Witch's Head Nebula IC 2118, located to the lower right of Orion, about 900 light-years from Earth, a patch of dust illuminated by Rigel.

Upper right: the Seagull Nebula IC 2177, about 3,700 light-years from Earth, with a wingspan of more than 100 light-years, soaring between the constellations Monoceros and Canis Major, consisting of a large cloud of hydrogen and dust, containing a large number of newborn stars.

Lower left: The Black Eye galaxy M64 in the constellation Coma Berenices, about 24 million light-years from Earth, slightly smaller than the Milky Way, is the result of the merger of two galaxies; the surrounding faint nebula is the dust in the Milky Way.

Lower middle: DIR 198+32, an indescribable faint cloud in Cancer, even can't find much information, it should also be the molecular cloud in the Milky Way.

Lower right: A small patch of the Virgo cluster contains a number of galaxies, notably M100 on the upper left, NGC 430/4298 on the left, M99 on the left of center, M98 on the right, and NGC4216 on the lower, all more than 40 million light-years from Earth. The largest, M100, is 55 million light-years away and has a diameter of more than 100,000 light-years. It is about the size of our own Milky Way and is one of the largest and brightest members of the Virgo-Coma Cluster. The bright star right in the center, with a good number, HD 106888.

Now my new telescope is in place, with a 10-inch aperture and 1-meter focal length, it's time to start another round of testing.

Stay tuned!