This gives new meaning to "One Shot Color"...it was taken with a new Sky-Watcher Quattro 150P (f/4) Newtonian -- but it will be the only image I take with that scope since I had to return it! Long story. Oh, well. I was pretty impressed with the light it collected (as evidenced by the fact that this is only 1 hour of subs since I had to throw away 26 others), but there were also some other issues I had to iron out in post-processing. Anyway, I thought the final image was cool, so I thought I'd share it.
Sky-Watcher Quattro 150P f/4 Newtonian w/ 0.86x coma corrector (518mm fL)
ASI2600MC Pro (OSC camera)
ZWO AM5 strain wave mount with guiding via ASIAir Plus using an ASI120mm mini and a 30mm F4 guide scope
300s x 13 [Total Exposure 1:05]; with dark, flat, and dark-flat frames
Pre-processed in PixInsight and post-processed in Photoshop
Greg
Wow, looks at all those dust clouds. And with only an hour's worth of exposure. The effective f/ratio of 3.44 helps but not a lot. Must have been a very transparent sky.
@pwalker Yes, the dust clouds were a lot more visible with this scope than my smaller AT60ED. I think the transparency was good, but this is the night last week that the seeing was horrible. Alas, the Quattro is never more... 😀 Thanks again for your help with the light flares in the unprocessed images Paul and Terri! I appreciate it.
Greg
This gives new meaning to "One Shot Color"...it was taken with a new Sky-Watcher Quattro 150P (f/4) Newtonian -- but it will be the only image I take with that scope since I had to return it! Long story. Oh, well. I was pretty impressed with the light it collected (as evidenced by the fact that this is only 1 hour of subs since I had to throw away 26 others), but there were also some other issues I had to iron out in post-processing. Anyway, I thought the final image was cool, so I thought I'd share it.
Sky-Watcher Quattro 150P f/4 Newtonian w/ 0.86x coma corrector (518mm fL)
ASI2600MC Pro (OSC camera)
ZWO AM5 strain wave mount with guiding via ASIAir Plus using an ASI120mm mini and a 30mm F4 guide scope
300s x 13 [Total Exposure 1:05]; with dark, flat, and dark-flat frames
Pre-processed in PixInsight and post-processed in PhotoshopGreg
Greg, great image! Glad you figured out the issues and that you needed a new coma corrector. But sorry you had to give the scope up. They seem like a 'replace everything' kind of shop. The iris is like a jewel inside of a big storm cloud.
Terri
