First Light CarbonStar 150 Newtonian M13
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M13, the Hercules Cluster, was my first light with the new Carbon Star 150mm Imaging Newtonian. After several days of collimation, testing, getting NINA to auto-focus, switching from off-axis guiding back to guidescope guiding, and dealing with several other issues that actually caused me to wear a trail in my backyard grass from my house to my pier, I was able to get everything going last night and capture this first light image of M13. I'm pretty satisfied with the collimation and the image in general. I can't wait to get this very fast f/3.8 Newtonian under some dark skies and out of my Bortle 7 light-polluted skies of Davie, Florida.
Tonight, I will be adding a main mirror mask that I 3D printed and will be testing on m106 if the weather holds up.
Details:
Carbon Star 150mm Newtonian, with coma corrector, reduced to f/3.8
QHY268M with QHY filter wheel
Badder 36mm RGB filters
ZWO AM5 Mount
30, 30 sec exposure RGB
Processed all in Pixinsight
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