ASTRO: M13 - QHY2Pro First Light

Recently I made first (test) shots with my chinese QHY2Pro CCD camera.
Here is M13, a 100 secs single shot, only through UV-IR cut filter.
Location: Cakovec, Croatia, Europe.
May 28, 2008. around 02h UT.
I used my 8" F/5 Newtonian at prime focus (combined with Baader coma
corrector) for imaging and a QHY5 camera attached on Zeiss 300 mm telephoto
lens for autoguiding. The mount was Skywatcher EQ6 SynScan Pro. Autoguiding
software was PHD Guiding.
I made single shot only for testing. I plan to stack more frames in future.
Comments and suggestions are most welcome!
Greetings,
Gordan

--
"The heavens declare the glory of God, and the firmament showeth His
handiwork." (Psalm 19:1)

Congratulations to your successful first light. As far as I know the QHY2Pro
has the same chip as my SXV-H9, so I'm confident that it will give you a lot
of fun.
Was this with 2x2 binning? The image looks sharp enough to post a larger
version if you have one.

Stefan

"Gordan" schrieb im Newsbeitrag
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Recently I made first (test) shots with my chinese QHY2Pro CCD camera.
Here is M13, a 100 secs single shot, only through UV-IR cut filter.
Location: Cakovec, Croatia, Europe.
May 28, 2008. around 02h UT.
I used my 8" F/5 Newtonian at prime focus (combined with Baader coma
corrector) for imaging and a QHY5 camera attached on Zeiss 300 mm
telephoto lens for autoguiding. The mount was Skywatcher EQ6 SynScan Pro.
Autoguiding software was PHD Guiding.
I made single shot only for testing. I plan to stack more frames in
future.
Comments and suggestions are most welcome!
Greetings,
Gordan

--
"The heavens declare the glory of God, and the firmament showeth His
handiwork." (Psalm 19:1)

Gordan wrote:

Recently I made first (test) shots with my chinese QHY2Pro CCD camera.
Here is M13, a 100 secs single shot, only through UV-IR cut filter.
Location: Cakovec, Croatia, Europe.
May 28, 2008. around 02h UT.
I used my 8" F/5 Newtonian at prime focus (combined with Baader coma
corrector) for imaging and a QHY5 camera attached on Zeiss 300 mm telephoto
lens for autoguiding. The mount was Skywatcher EQ6 SynScan Pro. Autoguiding
software was PHD Guiding.
I made single shot only for testing. I plan to stack more frames in future.
Comments and suggestions are most welcome!
Greetings,
Gordan

--
"The heavens declare the glory of God, and the firmament showeth His
handiwork." (Psalm 19:1)


First light looks very promising. Waiting for more.

Rick


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Third character is a zero rather than a capital "Oh".

Thank you for comment!
This was without binning (full resolution)
Here's the bigger version (original size, just cropped a bit).
I need more exposures to remove the noise.
Gordan

"Stefan Lilge" wrote in message
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Congratulations to your successful first light. As far as I know the
QHY2Pro
has the same chip as my SXV-H9, so I'm confident that it will give you a
lot
of fun.
Was this with 2x2 binning? The image looks sharp enough to post a larger
version if you have one.

Stefan

"Gordan" schrieb im Newsbeitrag
...
Recently I made first (test) shots with my chinese QHY2Pro CCD camera.
Here is M13, a 100 secs single shot, only through UV-IR cut filter.
Location: Cakovec, Croatia, Europe.
May 28, 2008. around 02h UT.
I used my 8" F/5 Newtonian at prime focus (combined with Baader coma
corrector) for imaging and a QHY5 camera attached on Zeiss 300 mm
telephoto lens for autoguiding. The mount was Skywatcher EQ6 SynScan Pro.
Autoguiding software was PHD Guiding.
I made single shot only for testing. I plan to stack more frames in
future.
Comments and suggestions are most welcome!
Greetings,
Gordan

--
"The heavens declare the glory of God, and the firmament showeth His
handiwork." (Psalm 19:1)

Thank you, Rick!
See the larger version of my M13 (in my reply to Stefan).

"Rick Johnson" wrote in message
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Gordan wrote:

Recently I made first (test) shots with my chinese QHY2Pro CCD camera.
Here is M13, a 100 secs single shot, only through UV-IR cut filter.
Location: Cakovec, Croatia, Europe.
May 28, 2008. around 02h UT.
I used my 8" F/5 Newtonian at prime focus (combined with Baader coma
corrector) for imaging and a QHY5 camera attached on Zeiss 300 mm
telephoto lens for autoguiding. The mount was Skywatcher EQ6 SynScan Pro.
Autoguiding software was PHD Guiding.
I made single shot only for testing. I plan to stack more frames in
future.
Comments and suggestions are most welcome!
Greetings,
Gordan

--
"The heavens declare the glory of God, and the firmament showeth His
handiwork." (Psalm 19:1)

First light looks very promising. Waiting for more.

Rick


--
Correct domain name is arvig and it is net not com. Prefix is correct.
Third character is a zero rather than a capital "Oh".

Nice job Gordan!


John N. Gretchen III
N5JNG NCS304
http://www.tisd.net/~jng3

Gordan,

the larger version looks really good. Stars are sharp and tight like they
should be in a globular pic. As far as I could see on the net your new
camera has the same chip as my SXV-H9 camera, so I am quite sure that you
will get good results also on fainter objects than M13.

Stefan

"Gordan" schrieb im Newsbeitrag
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Thank you for comment!
This was without binning (full resolution)
Here's the bigger version (original size, just cropped a bit).
I need more exposures to remove the noise.
Gordan

"Stefan Lilge" wrote in message
...
Congratulations to your successful first light. As far as I know the
QHY2Pro
has the same chip as my SXV-H9, so I'm confident that it will give you a
lot
of fun.
Was this with 2x2 binning? The image looks sharp enough to post a larger
version if you have one.

Stefan

"Gordan" schrieb im Newsbeitrag
...
Recently I made first (test) shots with my chinese QHY2Pro CCD camera.
Here is M13, a 100 secs single shot, only through UV-IR cut filter.
Location: Cakovec, Croatia, Europe.
May 28, 2008. around 02h UT.
I used my 8" F/5 Newtonian at prime focus (combined with Baader coma
corrector) for imaging and a QHY5 camera attached on Zeiss 300 mm
telephoto lens for autoguiding. The mount was Skywatcher EQ6 SynScan
Pro.
Autoguiding software was PHD Guiding.
I made single shot only for testing. I plan to stack more frames in
future.
Comments and suggestions are most welcome!
Greetings,
Gordan

--
"The heavens declare the glory of God, and the firmament showeth His
handiwork." (Psalm 19:1)