First photos with Stellina

[Pikaia]

I recently bought a Stellina, and after a predictable spell of cloudy weather I finally had a full night of clear sky to try it out. These were all taken in fairly strong twilight, I will not get any Astronomical darkness until the end of the month. These images were made from Jpeg files output by Stellina, with some post-processing in Topaz Denoise and ON1.

Perseus Double Cluster - 10m24s

NGC457 - 10m48s

M13 - 16m

[BABOafrica]

Stellina ... That's a new one on me.

BABO

[jthommes]

Cool images.

Interesting instrument. it looks like its horizontal FOV is about 52 arc minutes and it is an Alt Azimuth movement. Is this so?

[Pikaia]

The actual FOV is 60' x 40', but I cropped some of the images slightly.

It is an Alt-Az. mount.

https://vaonis.com/stellina

[jthommes]

Thanks Pikaia. Quite an interesting instrument.

[STEVE333]

Nice images. I didn't realize it has an integrated derotator to correct for the rotation introduced by the Alt/Az mount. Pretty clever.

Thanks for sharing.

Steve