smc with ed80

[Astrobserver99]

Stack of 75x2min subs from last night taken with ed80 in Melbourne. Moon was up. Cropped as the scale of the full frame is very small .

[renormalised]

Good piccie..bit of a greenish cast to the galaxy, but not bad for 2 minute subs:D:D

[bmitchell82]

very green tint, do you run guiding?

[Astrobserver99]

Didn't notice this at first. Probably the green tint was introduced during processing with DSS. The align rgb option was not enabled. I will run it again with further adjustment. ormI like the colour though, a change from the norm.

This time the ED80 was guided with a 9x50 guidescope SS Autoguider.

[tlgerdes]

Can you post a full frame, I am trying to gauge where in the SMC you have captured. The SMC should fill your whole frame and cant understand why you have so little of it.

[Astrobserver99]

Full frame and reprocessed image

[tlgerdes]

Hi Rob,

You are going to have to get a lot more data, with longer subs. Just to put your picture into perspective, I have attached a picture of the "Whole" SMC. I believe yours is one of the bright blobs in the bottom centre of the SMC.

This photo is at 100mm focal length