First Light new scope

I got my first chance to use my new Skywatcher Esprit 100mm F5.5 this week. It comes with a field flattener and I had to get a customised adapter made up to get the correct back focus of 63mm to the CCD camera sensor. I took this image through a Ha filter. It was an guided exposure of 1000 sec and I applied minimum processing. Overall I am very happy with the result, the scope seems to be living up to its excellent reviews.

Looks like you have a winning combination there John. It is always lovely to see (great) detail starting to appear with just one sub.....and yours certainly does it here. It is also worrying that one has the calculations right when getting an adapter for hitting that back focus sweet spot - again you are spot on.
So wishing you the very best with this set up - looking forward to many more images from you. Have fun and clear skies. At least we can say the nights are getting longer now

That looks like a very nice set up. Happy imaging !

Thanks Brendan and John. As a matter of interest here is one of the scope reviews that convinced me to order the scope.

ca.skywatcher.com/userfiles/Review%20Esprit%20100ED.pdf

John

Interesting read. I was wondering about the focuser.....happy to see that it is 3". When you start hanging gear off the back of the scope you need at least that.
Now.....we all must wait patiently to get the full picture .....the full 1st image. You will get great satisfaction out of using that scope I am sure. Again, wishing you clear skies to make good use of it.

Added O111 and S2 exposures. Total Exposure now 3 hr 5min. Some trouble with star halos might be O111 filter.
John