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The final piece of the puzzle was fitting the Optec Lepus reducer for the C11 Edge last night, taking it from its native f\/10 to somewhere near f\/6.2 (actually nearer f\/6.0 from the results below!)<\/p>\nAfter helping get Jon’s Obsy set up, and finding\/fixing plenty of related issues along the way, I think his imaging rig #1 is about ready to go The final piece of the puzzle was fitting the Optec Lepus reducer for the C11 Edge last night, taking it from its native f\/10 to somewhere near f\/6.2 (actually nearer f\/6.0 from the results below!)<\/p>\n
So, this is his data from his setup, but he has allowed me to have a play with the data and post the image here. Please note that this is just 20 minutes of data (10 x 2mins), was against a blue sky (8.30pm until 8.50-ish), and was sinking rapidly into the East (PHD was having fits with the guide star movement!)<\/p>\n
So long M42, we shall see you again next year… we will be ready!<\/p>\n
Mount: EQ6 via EQMOD
\nOTA: celestron C11 Edge + Optec Lepus reducer @ f\/6.0
\nGuiding: Celestron OAG + DSI + PHD
\nImaging: Starlight Xpress H9 + MaximDL, 10 x 120s, Ha Filter
\nStacked: DeepSkyStacker
\nPost Process: PSCS5 + PixInsight<\/p>\n
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