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New equipment and playing!

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Good morning everyone!

My name is Gordon and I just acquired a Quark. I went though a couple of different ones until I finally got a winner. I have a friend from another forum that has the same setup as mine and I could tell he was getting significantly better results than I was with the first 2. OPT was very understanding and helped me figure out that it was the quarks that were funky. Anyway short story long.... :D Here's one of my images from yesterday.

Scope: Explore Scientific ED80-cf
Mount: Orion Atlas EQ6g
Quark Chomoshere
ZWO ASI174mm-C
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Scopes: Explore Scientific ED80CF, Skywatcher 254N, Orion ST80, Orion Atlas EQ-g mount, Orion SSAG guider. Baader MPCC MkIII coma corrector, Vixen 70mm refractor. Lunt LS35THa solar scope. Skywatcher EQ5pro mount. Imagers: ZWO ASI1600 MM Cool, ZWO ASI174mm-C (for use with my Quark chromosphere), ZWO ASI120MC Filters: LRGB, Ha 7nm, O-III 7nm, S-II 7nm Eyepieces: a few, Primary software: Cartes du Ciel, EQMOD, SGP, Nebulosity, Photoshop, StarTools V1.4
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Hi ghswen, your picture is missing.
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A very warm and sunny welcome Gordon :hamster: you were very lucky to be able to return and try out new Quarks. After 18 months of hassle all I could do was get my money back and run as fast as I could away from my Quark ;)

Would love to see the pic, if you need help uploading or linking the image just let us know.
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Sorry about that! I thought it took....

Anyway it should be there now.

Comments / suggestions always welcome!


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Scopes: Explore Scientific ED80CF, Skywatcher 254N, Orion ST80, Orion Atlas EQ-g mount, Orion SSAG guider. Baader MPCC MkIII coma corrector, Vixen 70mm refractor. Lunt LS35THa solar scope. Skywatcher EQ5pro mount. Imagers: ZWO ASI1600 MM Cool, ZWO ASI174mm-C (for use with my Quark chromosphere), ZWO ASI120MC Filters: LRGB, Ha 7nm, O-III 7nm, S-II 7nm Eyepieces: a few, Primary software: Cartes du Ciel, EQMOD, SGP, Nebulosity, Photoshop, StarTools V1.4
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Avery nice image as a start, Gordon !

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Good starting image, very nice !


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That's super :hamster:

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Nice image Gordon. A warm welcome to this forum.

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Good start, Gordon!


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