M82

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Comment by Federico Luciani on March 8, 2011 at 11:10am

CGE Pro...oh yess.

Comment by Kevin Galka on March 8, 2011 at 10:54am

I was looking at those mounts, but I already purchased a mount last summer... Celestron CGE Pro. I want to try and put the 16" on it!
The M82 image was taken with a Meade SCT 10" on a Meade LXD75 mount a few years ago. The scope in the background of my profile picture is the 16" :)

Comment by Federico Luciani on March 8, 2011 at 10:16am

"You are better than me, Gunga Din".
16"....Maybe I did not understand, my English is poor. You still use it for imaging? You will spend all your money for a mount.... So, if you're crazier than me, have a look at the work of Lenord (www.gototelescopes.com);he's truly a great craftsman, at relatively low pices He uses Harmonic drives instead of worm gears and then ... no backlash, torque at your wishes, low or no PE.

Comment by Kevin Galka on March 8, 2011 at 9:12am

Thanks. I took this shot from my balcony (of my old place) which over looked downtown Winnipeg. The monster in my profile picture is actually a 16" newt :) However I never ended up using it to image at all because it was on an old mount, though I am in the process of trying to convert the scope to a trusstube to put onto my CGE Pro mount.
I've included a little image of where I used to image from....

Comment by Federico Luciani on March 8, 2011 at 12:33am

Wow, this is a good work! I've seen that you got a monster too...(that allow to take this kind of photos) a little bit smaller than mine: I'm a mad man, your 10" is far more manegeable that mine. If you go back to
http://astrogab.ning.com/photo/ngc3628-2?commentId=6354305:Comment:...
you can read about "the Thing"....

Comment by Kevin Galka on January 23, 2011 at 10:39pm

Thanks,
The orginal shot of this image isn't half as good as this one... I took this a few years back and had an ok shot but I hadn't even begun to learn about post processing yet. Fast forward to now, and after learning many techinques through the net, I was able to bring out a lot more detail. I'm looking forward to getting out to a dark site this spring (or sooner) and try this with my new scope and mount. This was shot with a Meade 10" SCT on an LXD75 mount, unguided.