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Originally Posted by strongmanmike
Not sure the similarity is all that surprising, in the end as long as your optics are diffraction limited, it is the seeing that evens out the playing field  Put M&T's scope at CTIO and bingo! 
Mike |
You're right Mike,
Talking of Chile - I had to have a look - wow.
Still - what amateurs can do with 1% of the money doesn't
make the results from Chile 100 times better.
http://www.chart32.de/images/phocaga..._halrgb_70.jpg
2-panel mosaic
Ha-LRGB (Ha 11x40m, L 36x20m, R 14x20m, G 14x20m, B 14x20m) total 63 h.
Seeing
0.7-1.1 arcsec 80cm f/7 Astrooptik Keller corrected cassegrain, FLI Proline 16803, Baader Filters, Prompt 7 CTIO Chile, processing: Johannes Schedle