(July 7, 2015 at 11:12 pm)orogenicman Wrote: Thanks, Min. Considering the competition I had, I was very satisfied with my result. In fact, after seeing my image, Alan, the one with the rig in the first picture, e-mail me with compliments, as did Felix. Alan's was very good, but the magnification of his scope is so powerful that it only got a fraction of the field of view my image has. I've always said that magnification isn't everything in astrophotography, and neither is it important to the most expensive optics on the market.Very nice, I admire the dedication of anyone that produces images like this. The time spent collecting and post processing is immense as I understand.
I have an 8" Meade LX90 just for visual, astrophotography is a big leap from that. The mount is most important from what I've read? Folk spend thousands on this kit even before taking into account the camera gear.
