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Originally Posted by Rex
Wow Kevin, that's really nice mate. Interesting diffraction spikes.... has your newt got a six vein spider? The astrobin version shows quite a bit of detail in the galaxy with a nice neutral background, well done mate
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Thanks Rex. It's a 3 vane spider. This tricks a lot of people.
http://www.telescope-optics.net/spider.htm
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Originally Posted by PeterEde
I like it
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Thanks Peter!
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Originally Posted by Placidus
A big fish well-caught on a light line. Pleasing field.
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Thanks Mike. I can only aspire to get an image like yours.
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Originally Posted by Stevec35
I wouldn't call it pathetic by any means. The galaxy is a bit too blue/cyan but the detail is good. A nice job I think. Steve
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Thanks Steve. Yes there is a lot of blue in the galaxy. Not sure why, but my K-5 tends to have a blue bias with a lot of DSO's and I find it difficult to correct without messing up the background. Not sure if it's a camera thing or because my sky is sodium street light orange and making it neutral via colour balance makes "foreground" objects blue. I do know that the galaxy was less blue with an LP filter. Unfortunately the LP filter chewed too much light in total to use it.
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Originally Posted by RickS
Not bad at all, Kevin! You'll have to try a lot hard to get the jets though
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Something to work for Rick, like in Mike's image. I think maybe 100 hours should do it!
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Originally Posted by AstroJason
That's a real nice looking galaxy there, Kevin. Especially considering how warm it is up in NQ. Good stuff.
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Thanks Jason. Yep the weather is all downhill now until May next year. Probably the end of DSO season here so I will have to shoot bright stuff like clusters etc.