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Pages: 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | (show all) Harel_Boren Vendor-The Boren-Simon PowerNewt Astrograph Reged: 03/15/09 Loc: Israel Officina Stellare Veloce RH 200 First Light       #5587071 - 12/24/12 11:41 AM Edit   Reply   Quote Quick Reply   Aligned with my love to short focal length, this is actually a Riccardi-Honders, F/3 system, which prides itself on a very wide (42 mm) fully illuminated and corrected field, small spot size (8 microns @26 mm from axis) and solid mechanics. My colleague Tal Faibish and I grew fond of its very small dimensions (235 mm length, 285 mm physical diameter; 8.4 kg) which makes it rather portable. The system requires strict orthogonality between the chip surface and imaging train, and for that the whole focuser system is fit on a plate which can be adjusted through 4 screws, on the 4 corners corresponding to the 4 corners of the image (and chip). I copied some more info to my site: http://www.pbase.com/boren/officina_stellare_riccardihonders_veloce_rh_200 On the first night out, however, we didn't figures out correctly how the SBIG ST 8300 chip is located in the camera (mistakenly assuming it is 90 degrees to how it actually is built). This caused us to spend some 6 hours desperately trying to get the thing to work. Well... Once we figured it out, at about 2 AM, it took us less than 10 min. to get the system to generate images which were of decent quality. We left the better fine tuning of the system to next time. Our target for the night, the Rosette, was already quite low on the horizon, so all we could do was squeeze in 1 hour of Ha, which is hereby presented to you... http://www.pbase.com/image/147972462 Hope you like it! Cheers and Happy Holidays! Harel Post Extras:       Jim Thommes Post Laureate Reged: 09/20/04 Loc: San DiegoCA USA Re: Officina Stellare Veloce RH 200 First Light [Re: Harel_Boren]       #5587148 - 12/24/12 12:27 PM Edit   Reply   Quote Quick Reply   Harel, Congrats on the first light and on overcoming your initial difficulties. Yes I image an f/3 system would require good orthogonality - particularly so to take advantage of the quality optics. The image came out superb. Post Extras:       pfile Carpal Tunnel Reged: 06/14/09 Re: Officina Stellare Veloce RH 200 First Light [Re: Jim Thommes]       #5587155 - 12/24/12 12:31 PM Edit   Reply   Quote Quick Reply   this is really funny - i was just looking at this OTA on OS's website, then on a reseller website, and then i pop over here to find this post at the top! i happen to have the same CCD camera... why is the orientation of the CCD important? is it just because you were trying to make it all orthogonal expecting the camera to be in the other orientation? otherwise it sounds like you can not rotate the CCD. Post Extras:       David Rosenthal Imager Extraordinaire Reged: 06/23/06 Loc: NJ Re: Officina Stellare Veloce RH 200 First Light [Re: pfile]       #5587371 - 12/24/12 03:09 PM Edit   Reply   Quote Quick Reply   Congratulations on your first light image. It is really good despite the lost imaging hours. Can't wait to see what you are going to do with it ! Post Extras:       David Pavlich Transmographied Reged: 05/18/05 Loc: Mandeville, LA USA Re: Officina Stellare Veloce RH 200 First Light [Re: David Rosenthal]       #5587512 - 12/24/12 04:53 PM Edit   Reply   Quote Quick Reply   That's very nice work, Harel! David Post Extras:       rigel123 Postmaster Reged: 06/29/09 Loc: SW Ohio Re: Officina Stellare Veloce RH 200 First Light [Re: Harel_Boren]       #5587530 - 12/24/12 05:08 PM Edit   Reply   Quote Quick Reply   Very nice Harel, congrats on getting everything working! Post Extras:       alpal Carpal Tunnel Reged: 06/15/09 Loc: Melbourne Australia. Re: Officina Stellare Veloce RH 200 First Light [Re: rigel123]       #5587547 - 12/24/12 05:24 PM Edit   Reply   Quote Quick Reply   Quote: The system requires strict orthogonality between the chip surface and imaging train, and for that the whole focuser system is fit on a plate which can be adjusted through 4 screws, on the 4 corners corresponding to the 4 corners of the image (and chip). Nice image Harel. Do you have any photos of your above setup? Was this an add on which was not supplied with the telescope? You'll do well with this new high tech RH200. Post Extras:       vpcirc Carpal Tunnel Reged: 12/09/09 Loc: Merced CA Re: Officina Stellare Veloce RH 200 First Light [Re: alpal]       #5587816 - 12/24/12 10:14 PM Edit   Reply   Quote Quick Reply   Beautiful detail! Nice Scope Post Extras:       Harel_Boren Vendor-The Boren-Simon PowerNewt Astrograph Reged: 03/15/09 Loc: Israel Re: Officina Stellare Veloce RH 200 First Light [Re: alpal]       #5588071 - 12/25/12 03:56 AM Attachment (53 downloads) Edit   Reply   Quote Quick Reply   Quote: Quote: The system requires strict orthogonality between the chip surface and imaging train, and for that the whole focuser system is fit on a plate which can be adjusted through 4 screws, on the 4 corners corresponding to the 4 corners of the image (and chip). Nice image Harel. Do you have any photos of your above setup? Was this an add on which was not supplied with the telescope? You'll do well with this new high tech RH200. Thanks alpal :-) Here's a capture directly from the user manual, which explains the subject, along with an image which shows where the bolts are, etc. Cheers, Harel Post Extras:       alpal Carpal Tunnel Reged: 06/15/09 Loc: Melbourne Australia. Re: Officina Stellare Veloce RH 200 First Light [Re: Harel_Boren]       #5588146 - 12/25/12 07:01 AM Edit   Reply   Quote Quick Reply   Thanks Harel. That's good - a fully adjustable system as is. cheers Allan Post Extras:       mdek member Reged: 08/31/08 Loc: Netherlands Re: Officina Stellare Veloce RH 200 First Light [Re: alpal]       #5588763 - 12/25/12 06:23 PM Edit   Reply   Quote Quick Reply   Amazing shot, and a beautiful scope indeed! I can imagine orthogonality is crucial in a f3 system! I had trouble enough getting my gso 8" rc focusser/primary ortho enough for f6! Post Extras:       Harel_Boren Vendor-The Boren-Simon PowerNewt Astrograph Reged: 03/15/09 Loc: Israel Re: Officina Stellare Veloce RH 200 First Light [Re: Jim Thommes]       #5589731 - 12/26/12 01:12 PM Edit   Reply   Quote Quick Reply   Thanks Jim! Happy you liked the image. It actually took quite shorter time than we expected, once we understood the grave misperception we had regarding the position of the chip in the camera Cheers, Harel Post Extras:       Harel_Boren Vendor-The Boren-Simon PowerNewt Astrograph Reged: 03/15/09 Loc: Israel Re: Officina Stellare Veloce RH 200 First Light [Re: pfile]       #5589737 - 12/26/12 01:17 PM Edit   Reply   Quote Quick Reply   Quote: this is really funny - i was just looking at this OTA on OS's website, then on a reseller website, and then i pop over here to find this post at the top! i happen to have the same CCD camera... why is the orientation of the CCD important? is it just because you were trying to make it all orthogonal expecting the camera to be in the other orientation? otherwise it sounds like you can not rotate the CCD. Hi - its not the orientation of the chip is in itself important. You can position it however you like. However, you must know how its physical orientation in the camera, relates to the image that comes out on your PC. I.e. - if the stars aren't perfect on the right hand top side of the image on the PC, you ought to know how that particular corner relates to the actual physical side of the camera, so that you can change it. Now, if you have this relationship wrong (as we have: thinking that top right relates to top top right, whereas it actually related to bottom right) then your adjustments RUIN the orthogonality, rather than refine it. Once we got it right, the issue was resolves in less than 10 min. There's still some refinement to do, but as you can see in the image - most of the work is behind us. Cheers, Harel Post Extras:       bilgebay Post Laureate Reged: 11/06/08 Loc: Türkiye - Istanbul and Marmari... Re: Officina Stellare Veloce RH 200 First Light [Re: Harel_Boren]       #5589781 - 12/26/12 01:47 PM Edit   Reply   Quote Quick Reply   Hi Harel, Very nice image and very nice setup as I have already said in the Cats forum. I can understand your frustration until you figured out the correct way to square the camera to the optical plane. I have taken note of this issue. Thank you for sharing your joys and frustrations as well Sedat Post Extras:       Bert professor emeritus Reged: 02/17/06 Loc: Australia Re: Officina Stellare Veloce RH 200 First Light [Re: Harel_Boren]       #5590093 - 12/26/12 06:21 PM Attachment (28 downloads) Edit   Reply   Quote Quick Reply   Hi Harel Here is a 8min exposure in NII with a Bahtinov Mask. 1.3MB http://d1355990.i49.quadrahosting.com.au/2012_12/RH200-B.jpg As you can see all the stars with visible diffraction patterns show perfect focus. This can only mean one thing. The PL16803 sensor is almost perfectly orthogonal to the optic axis of the RH200. I can pick up a 100 step difference of the FLI Atlas focuser in the diffraction patterns. This corresponds to 8.5 micron along the optic axis. This means that my camera sensor is aligned better than 10 micron from corner to corner. I have a custom made frame to firmly hold the camera. With this I can make very small adjustments to align the sensor. All imaging systems invert the image. It fools the best of us. Bert Astrograph is an Officina Stellare RH200 which has a focal length of 600mm and is F3, yes F3! Clear aperture is 200mm. FLI Atlas Focuser. FLI ten position filter wheel CFW-3-10 with 50mm square filters. Astrodon E series LRGB and HA, NII, SII and OIII 3nm NB filters. Also a continuum filter 5nm. Camera is a FLI PL16803 which has a sensor size 36.8 X 36.8 mm. The FoV of this system is 3.5 X 3.5 degrees. Mount is a Software Bisque PMX. Edited by Bert (12/26/12 06:40 PM) Post Extras:       orion69 professor emeritus Reged: 05/09/10 Loc: Croatia Re: Officina Stellare Veloce RH 200 First Light [Re: Bert]       #5590142 - 12/26/12 07:09 PM Edit   Reply   Quote Quick Reply   Harel, can you compare resolution and contrast of RH200 vs let's say fast 130/780 mm refractor with 0.75x FF/FR which make it F/4.5 ? Actually, I have not seen any high quality, long subs, preferably NB, finished picture with RH200. In fact, best images with RH200 I've seen so far are somewhat "soft" compared to top quality images with fast 5-5.5" refractor... I'm buying astrograf next year and deciding between mentioned refractor and RH200. Post Extras:       Bert professor emeritus Reged: 02/17/06 Loc: Australia Re: Officina Stellare Veloce RH 200 First Light [Re: orion69]       #5590175 - 12/26/12 07:33 PM Attachment (23 downloads) Edit   Reply   Quote Quick Reply   Hi Knez The RH200 is fast at F3. This is 5X16 minutes in 3nm NII. This would take you with an F4.5 system 5x36 minutes. Or longer if you wanted to get the signal to noise ratio down to the same level as the shorter exposures the RH200 give you. Large image here 5MB http://d1355990.i49.quadrahosting.com.au/2012_12/M42_RH200_NII.jpg By the way 3nm NB filters DO work very well even at F3. Especially the Astrodons. Bert Edited by Bert (12/26/12 08:01 PM) Post Extras:       Bert professor emeritus Reged: 02/17/06 Loc: Australia Re: Officina Stellare Veloce RH 200 First Light [Re: orion69]       #5590316 - 12/26/12 09:15 PM Edit   Reply   Quote Quick Reply   Here you go again Knez a mosaic before I got the sensor alignment almost perfect. about 12Mb. http://d1355990.i49.quadrahosting.com.au/2012_12/LMC_2P_RGB_F.jpg Enough stars? Bert Post Extras:       pfile Carpal Tunnel Reged: 06/14/09 Re: Officina Stellare Veloce RH 200 First Light [Re: Harel_Boren]       #5590557 - 12/26/12 11:58 PM Edit   Reply   Quote Quick Reply   Quote: Hi - its not the orientation of the chip is in itself important. You can position it however you like. However, you must know how its physical orientation in the camera, relates to the image that comes out on your PC. I.e. - if the stars aren't perfect on the right hand top side of the image on the PC, you ought to know how that particular corner relates to the actual physical side of the camera, so that you can change it. Now, if you have this relationship wrong (as we have: thinking that top right relates to top top right, whereas it actually related to bottom right) then your adjustments RUIN the orthogonality, rather than refine it. Once we got it right, the issue was resolves in less than 10 min. There's still some refinement to do, but as you can see in the image - most of the work is behind us. Cheers, Harel ah yes, okay, now i understand. at least on my telescope the image comes out upside-down. but i thought that was normal - the image is formed upside-down at the focal plane. the RH200 could be different though. i did encounter this while collimating my RC10 - if you are using the defocused star method it's important to re-orient the image so that up is up! Post Extras:       Harel_Boren Vendor-The Boren-Simon PowerNewt Astrograph Reged: 03/15/09 Loc: Israel Re: Officina Stellare Veloce RH 200 First Light [Re: Bert]       #5591575 - 12/27/12 06:21 PM Edit   Reply   Quote Quick Reply   Quote: Here you go again Knez a mosaic before I got the sensor alignment almost perfect. about 12Mb. http://d1355990.i49.quadrahosting.com.au/2012_12/LMC_2P_RGB_F.jpg Enough stars? Bert [/quote Hi Bert, Thanks for sharing - I wasn't aware of this image of yours! It's a lovely gem - I like it very much! Cheers, Harel Post Extras:       Pages: 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | (show all)

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