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Posted: 20 Sep 2021

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Major part of the Small Magnallenic cloud.

Major part of the Small Magnallenic cloud.
I had for gotten I took this on the last free night before it rained. This is an area of the sky there are just so many stars and as you can see a huge number of Nebula's in such a small space. This is the New CMOS camera giving me a view of around about 1560mm. Looking at the few trial photos I have taken looking forward to a moonless night and to get a good target. Testing has gone well.

Small Magellanic Cloud NGC292

29 shots 10min each @-10c.

QHY 183C @ -10c

Prima Luce Essato Focus ,

Optolong LeNhance filter,

Skywatcher Black DiamondED80 OTA

Skywatcher NEQ 6 Pro

Guided PHD2, SGP

Pixinsight, Ps & Lr.

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Latest comments - All (11)
 Ko Hummel
Ko Hummel club
nice details Steve. But what do you mean by a view of 1560 mm, is that your effective focallength?
2 years ago.
 Steve Paxton
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Yes by changing the size of the sensor you get that effective focal length . so in effect I get three focal lengths out of the one scope just by changing the size of the sensor. Look at the first two both taken with same ED80 scope third is FF and my 600mm lens but you get the idea.

this is a 1" sensor x3 crop factor =1560mm
M20

APS-C sensor x 1.5 crop factor = 780mm

Lagoon Nebula M8 & Trifid Nebula M20

FF sensor x1.0 = 520mm in this shot 600mm Lens

Lagoon Nebula & Trifid Nebula- Do look large
2 years ago. Edited 2 years ago.
 tiabunna
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Very impressive indeed, Steve.
2 years ago.
 raingirl
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yes - i've seen that one of yours! i had forgotten about it.
2 years ago.
 Steve Paxton
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Thank you we get to see a lot more details in those white clouds we see in the southern sky both of them are very busy places. most people would not take photos of them but would turn to the more impressive views of space. my trials with this camera are complete now its get more moonless nights part of my trials has been focus and guiding in fact I took 20 min exposures in the moonlight very badly effected by the moon not at all post able on my account. I will redo the Galaxy in the dark once I can a rather impressive one but washed out by the moon.

times in moon light are more for trials than photos not unless you have a mono camera which at this stage I dont have or intend to get. I have re routed all the cables and wrapped them in shade cloth so its more flexible than the firm plastic spiral wrapping. its all worked as I had hoped.
2 years ago.

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