This is a first quick try of the new OTA, on a night of almost full moon, from my backyard. It is a short integration, but enough to hint the kind of resolution and depth I can expect from this wonderful instrument. As I did not take any flats, this is a 50% center crop of the full-frame.
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IMAGING DATA
Optical train: AP167FLZ + flattener
Mount: Losmandy G11
Guiding: unguided
Camera: Canon 6D (modded, sensor @24°C)
Frames: 35 lights 1 min. ea. @iso800, calibrated with 200 bias, 20 darks and no flats. These were HDR combined with 20 5-second exposures, to resolve some detail of the Homuculus.
Processing: PI 1.8 + Canon DPP
Date: 2017-03-10
Place: General Pacheco, Buenos Aires, Argentina
Seeing & transparency: average/poor (suburban skies)
