First light for my ZWO 2600 mc camera. This is actually the first image taken by me with anything other than my trusty Canon 60D DSLR.
I used the "0" Gain setting.
It has been overcast for most of January and part of February. Nonetheless we've had a clearing trend during this new moon portion of this month, along with some very cold temps.
I left the city and went south about 20km to the Glenlea observatory. The temperature was -20*C, but there was no wind. The snow was extra crunchy and the conditions were fair to good, lots of movement of air in the upper atmosphere, led to OK seeing with good transparency.
Lots of learning in this one with focusing.
I did take a lot of data @ 30 sec, 60 sec, 180 sec, and 300 sec, but I am only showing this single image without stacking just as am excited to show that this camera is working.
Later this week, I will stack
30 sec
60 sec
180 sec
300 sec data all seperately, and then combine everything in Pixinsight, using a combine tool to help balance everything.
For this single image: The processing was really fast and simple - I converted from .fit to . tiff in APP. First stretch in APP, then slight tweaks in PS. Then to PI for photmetric calibration.
Thanks for looking!
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