I finally got a SBIG 8XE and was excited that I would no longer have to wait for those long downloads on my 8e camera
Last night was a clear night and was all ready to image. I still focus by hand and was only able to get a 4.97 FWHM in Maxim when focusing. No that good for around here but I decided to image at .69 arc/sec anyway.
I knew that I was going to be sending my reducer back first thing in the morning to have a part made for it so no flats were going to be taken. Oh well
I decided to image NGC4565 and was very happy with the results
The mount was polar aligned with CCDops and the SBIG camera on the AP 1200 mount.
12 8min exposures were taken at .69 arc/sec
I did a Dark subtract, and a stretch in Maxim, nothing else done to the image. Since there were no flats I did not want to spend allot of time on this. My main concern was tracking, and to see how fast the downloads really were. Also to make sure that I was able to actually get the driver to work too.
http://web.tampabay.rr.com/galaxyquest/CCD%20Images/NGC4565.jpg
Was about to do the color but noticed that the tracking was off and then noticed that the refractor that I had the STV on for guiding was all dewed up, I had forgotten to turn on the heater. Since I never have this problem with my main imaging scope, even if the tubes are dripping water from the humidity.
It was 1am and decided to sleep, instead of waiting for the heater to work and keep going, since I knew that there were not going to be any flats done I figured why not get some sleep for another day
So this long winded message
Thank you Michael for selling me your camera
Mark
Last night was a clear night and was all ready to image. I still focus by hand and was only able to get a 4.97 FWHM in Maxim when focusing. No that good for around here but I decided to image at .69 arc/sec anyway.
I knew that I was going to be sending my reducer back first thing in the morning to have a part made for it so no flats were going to be taken. Oh well
I decided to image NGC4565 and was very happy with the results
The mount was polar aligned with CCDops and the SBIG camera on the AP 1200 mount.
12 8min exposures were taken at .69 arc/sec
I did a Dark subtract, and a stretch in Maxim, nothing else done to the image. Since there were no flats I did not want to spend allot of time on this. My main concern was tracking, and to see how fast the downloads really were. Also to make sure that I was able to actually get the driver to work too.
http://web.tampabay.rr.com/galaxyquest/CCD%20Images/NGC4565.jpg
Was about to do the color but noticed that the tracking was off and then noticed that the refractor that I had the STV on for guiding was all dewed up, I had forgotten to turn on the heater. Since I never have this problem with my main imaging scope, even if the tubes are dripping water from the humidity.
It was 1am and decided to sleep, instead of waiting for the heater to work and keep going, since I knew that there were not going to be any flats done I figured why not get some sleep for another day
So this long winded message
Thank you Michael for selling me your camera
Mark
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