Sleepy TelescopeWide-field deep-sky rig
Takahashi FSQ-85EDX with the ASI2600MM Pro: my wide-field rig for nebulae and large fields.
The wide-field rig is built around the Takahashi FSQ85-EDX on the NEQ6 Pro.
- Telescope: Takahashi FSQ-85EDX, 85 mm, 450 mm at f/5.3
- with the Takahashi 1.01× flattener: about 455 mm
- with the Takahashi QB 0.73× reducer: about 330 mm at f/3.9
- Camera: ASI2600MM Pro, cooled monochrome APS-C
- Filters: ZWO EFW 7 × 36 mm filter wheel with Antlia LRGB-V Pro and Antlia 3 nm Pro SHO
- Guiding: ZWO off-axis guider with a ZWO ASI290MM Mini
- Power and USB: Pegasus Astro Pocket Powerbox Advance Gen2
- Mount: NEQ6 Pro with the Rowan belt modification
With the ASI2600MM Pro the field is about 2.96° × 1.98° at 1.70″ per pixel with the flattener, and about 4.08° × 2.73° at 2.35″ per pixel with the reducer.