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Originally Posted by Peter Ward
I’m going to be really picky...
There is a little elongation in the stars. Hard to improve on the resolution given most of Oz sits at sea level, but I find tighter guiding or even AO helps, sans immigration to a high Chilean desert. Maybe a bit more blue in the colour. There are lots of small faint fuzzies in this field, maybe detected in the raw data maybe not, but I can’t tell with the high contrast processing .
This is still a solid image in my book.
Very well done
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Thanks Peter. Yes, the seeing/guiding was a bit below ideal. I was getting an average FWHM of around 2.7", with a range from I think 2.3-3.2. On good nights, I've seen it get down to under 1.9".
AO is on the future wish list given the missus may not appreciate the move to Chile!
There were a few more fuzzies in the full frame (that I cropped to focus on the galaxy), but it'd be nice to bring more out. I need to be less heavy handed with my contrast/stretching perhaps!
Thanks again.