Flaming Star (IC 405) & Tadpole Nebula (IC 410)

This is my first shot with my Baby-Takahashi, the FS-60 CB! I mainly use the Takahashi as a travel scope for visual observation and it also makes for a formidable spotting scope that I take on hikes.

After desperate hours in an ocean of Takahashi adapters, I ordered just the right ones to mod the Takahashi for astrophotography with the ZWO ASI 2600MC PRO and Askar Off-axis Guider. I mounted it on my trusted ZWO AM3 harmonic mount.

Unfortunately I wasn't patient enough to set the backfocus after the flattener just right, that's why the stars turned out bloated (blurXterminator helped 🙂 ).

Still, I'm very excited about the FS-60CBs potential for astrophotography. Not to mention how easily portable the whole rig (on a ZWO AM3) is! I can just tuck it under my arm 🙂

This is 178 lights of 180 seconds, so just shy of 9 hours under the bortle 8-9 Skies of Zurich city centre.

Edited in Pixinsight and Lightroom.

I hope you like it!