meegja OP t1_itgjei1 wrote on October 23, 2022 at 2:14 PM

The Cygnus Wall Complex is part of the North America nebula. It contains the most concentrated star formation in the nebula.

This is a 2-part composition, shot with a Meade LX200 8" f/10 ACF telescope, Zwo ASI071MC Pro camera with Optolong L-eXtreme filter and a Optec Lepus 0.62X Standard reducer.

Hagglepig420 t1_ith17xx wrote on October 23, 2022 at 4:21 PM

did you just have it on a wedge? how do you poloar align it? Id love to try doing this with my 12" lx200

meegja OP t1_ithb1fz wrote on October 23, 2022 at 5:27 PM

I have it as an OTA. My mount is a Ioptron CEM25EC with an Ioptron Ipolar camera in it. So polar alignment is the same as with an EQ-mount. The weight of the scope is around 50% of the payload of the mount, so that works fine.
The mount has optical encoders on RA and also because of that, I can do 600sec captures with tracking only :)