First Light on my ZWO ASI071 color camera

jsmithsd

Just finished my first imaging session using my new ZWO ASI071 color camera. The camera is quite sensitive, cooling was stable at -25C (ambient +10C), dark and bias frames were clean with no amp glow. The attached image is a stack of six 5 minute exposures on the Orion nebula. I used PixInsight for the calibration and CCD Stack to combine the images. Need to do some Photoshop to clean up the stars a bit but overall I think it turned out great. SGP ran the camera with no issues using the ASCOM driver. I guided with PHD2 using my ZWO ASI174M on USB2 as both cameras running USB3 was too much for my quad core desktop on the end of 32 foot USB cables.

Sam, thank you for another great ZWO product this camera ROCKS....

Jason.

wargrafix

A most impressive image!

Sam@ZWO

congratulations!

everybody waiting for a review from 071 user ;)

jsmithsd

Image of M31 taken with ASI071 camera with quarter moon nearby. I used a Baader UV/IR cut filter, so image has light background due to the moon light. I purchased a Baader Moon & Sky Glow filter so next chance I get to image I will try that filter and see if it will reject moon light and not upset the color balance. This is a stack of ten 8 minute exposures. Sequence Generator Pro runs the camera using ASCOM driver. Let me know what you think.