Hi All,

I finally received my WO Whitecat to go with my K-1. Unfortunately it arrived after I returned from my milky-way shoot at Meteor Crater AZ (pics and report to come in another post)

Here it is on what may be my portable setup, a ES IEXOS-100 mount.


Whitecat51


Whitecat 51 and Pentax K-1


My potential portable imaging setup

Looks pretty nice Bob.

I see you are in Corona, California. I was born in at the Navy hospital that was there way back when. It was a resort for the Hollywood elite, then was a Navy hospital and US Navy Surface Warfare base. It was closed a bit more than a year after I was born, then the state of California used a narcotics addiction rehabilitation center, then later as a prison.



In July 2005, the Corona site was re-designated as a detachment of Naval Weapons Station Seal Beach,with the facility's primary tenant, Naval Surface Warfare Center,Corona Division, retaining its own command structure.

I ended up with the Redcat.

I finally had a chance to test out my whitecat on my Losmandy G-11. This is a stack of 7 3 minute unguided subs shot from light polluted corona CA..

Aside from having some bad sensor dust and the need to take flats and help needed for processing, I'm pretty impressed with this scope and think it's a great fit for my K-1.

Heavily cropped due to Vignetting.