I've been considering a smart telescope package such as the new Celestron Origin.

All of the smart telescopes I've looked at are based on an Alt/Az platform shooting 10-15 sec subs to keep field rotation under control unless they have built-in field derotation.

The Origin is based on Celestron's Evolution mount which I've had for a couple of years, so I mounted my Stellarvue 60 (SV60) and QHY 163M with filterwheel on the mount and proceeded to shoot half an hour of 10 sec. subs of the Orion nebula with each of Lum, Ha and Oiii filters (180 subs per each) just to see what I could capture. It should be noted the SV60 and Origin focal lengths are almost exactly the same at 330mm; however, the focal ratio is considerably different at f/5.5 and f/2.2 respectively. This will significantly impact what can be captured with 10 sec. exposures off the Origin.

I used SharpCap's Live Stack tool to align and stack the subs as they were captured giving me three stacked images to play with. I aligned these stacks in PixInsight and created a LumHaOiiOii (LRGB) color image and tweaked it in Lightroom. I was pleasantly surprised with the results.

The only thing I'd do differently if I did this test again would be to shoot a few, maybe 2-3 minute, sessions to recovery the Trapezium area of Orion.

Enjoy!

bwa

Orion, a place that draws a newcomer as a moth is drawn to flame and light.

I have long followed the complexity and challenge presented by this forum in particular and have at long last realized that technology has been changing and what was once very difficult (likely impossible for me) has become at least approachable. So I decided to learn and expand my frontiers by seeing what I could see.

Recipe:
Thirty exposures at 180 seconds each, 20 @ 90s, 10 @ 15s.
Old Canon 400mm lens plus 1.4 extender
ZWO AM5 mount
ASI2600MC-Duo camera
ASIAir computer to control the mount and camera
pixInsight software to stack and edit and then input into PS for more play
and half a moon under dark Maine skies

A reasonable day for some solar imaging.

Used a QHY462C camera on an Astro-Tech 65EDQ telescope with a Hershel Wedge and Solar Continuum filter, mounted on an iOptron CEM26 EQ mount.

Shot eight video sessions of 1000 frames each and processed for the best five frames in PIPP then manually picked the best of the best for final postprocessing in Lightroom/Photoshop.

I've included the results from six of the eight sessions, one of which is a panorama of two sessions.

As mentioned in a previous post, Active Region 3590 is HUGE. I've included three images of this sunspot simply because it is rather impressive, all of which are slightly different!

The Earth is shown for reference (to show how small we are).

Enjoy!

bwa