This past summer I was fortunate to be involved in a conversation that led to me having the unlimited use of a Celestron C-14 Edge HD Telescope, CGE Pro mount and a Nightscape CCD camera along with the matching Hyperstar unit with adapters that speeds this scope up to a nice F1.9 (think camera lens) – “faster” gathers more light in less time. Well at least until Richard finds a permanent home for it.
This C-14 has about twice the light gathering ability as my other imaging rig, a C-11 with the Hyperstar and it produces some very nice images. I also have the ability to image at the native F11 of this scope. At F11 the native magnification is perfect for planetary nebula such as these:
We have the Dumbbell and Ring Nebula (M27 and M57 respectively)
I think they turned out much better than my previous attempts with the C-11 ans the C-8.