Monthly Archives: June 2010

QSI 583 WS

Posted by Erwin Kats on June 30, 2010 – 07:53
Filed under equipment

last wednesday my Quantum Scientific Imaging 583 WS arrived.
this ccd camera with an Kodak KAF 8300 chip has an internal filterwheel ( mine has an 1,25” filter holder so 5 filter can take place )

at the moment i only got a 7nm Halpha filter from baader planetarium.

the store were i ordered the camera www.telescoop.nl from Guy de Nooij was so kind to send the camera just before i went to an astroholiday to southern france.
i wish there were more stores so kind and with such a good service

more photo of the camera can be found here.

asa ddm 85 #2

Posted by Erwin Kats on June 21, 2010 – 16:33
Filed under Astrophotography, equipment

After all the shitty damages, bad service etc from asa here a first pic.
after a 10 star pointing file i did a 10 minute unguided exposure with the vixen r200ss( 8” F4 ,800mm ) ( still out of collimation )
M51 has been cropped, photo is made on iso 1600 with eos 40D