Telescope

William Optics FLT-132 F/5.8

Camera

Player One Poseidon Mono CMOS Camera

Mount

10 Micron GM1000

Pier-18 Equipment List

Telescope	William Optics FLT132 F5.6 APO
Mount	10 Micron GM1000
Camera	Player One Poseidon Mono CMOS Camera
Filter Wheel	ZWO 7 Position
Filters	LRGB HA OIII SII 7nm
Guide Camera	Unguided
Guider	OAG Integrated
Focuser	ZWO EAF
Power & Dew Control	Mount Hub pro V4

Telescope

A William Optics FLT132 I hear you mutter, well before you go any further try it I dare you, it will shock you with how good it is I tell you. I have owned many 5” APO’s and this is as good if not better than all of them.

Its field is flat, it has tiny stars and colour correction is spot on, combine this with a relatively fast F5.8 and you have a short/medium focal length astrograph that ticks all the boxes.

CMOS Camera

Just in case you have never used CMOS and have been using CCD like the rest of us for the last million years then let me tell you it requires a different approach, you can forget long subs as the are not needed and at most times detrimental to your image quality.

Allowing for CMOS’s sensitivity, higher dynamic range and super low read noise broadband imaging typically 60s is ample and 120s for narrowband, you just needs a lot more of them of course. This camera is set to Unity Gain as our default.