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Originally Posted by RobF
Sounds like you need to get to grips with plate solving Mario? No more getting lost and you can correct your pointing model as you go by Sync'ing on each plate solve too.
Nice M4 - at least you bagged one in the end!
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Thanks Rob - would you believe that I have Astrotortilla on my laptop and not once during my frustrating searches did I think of using it!!! Must have been all that red wine I'd had at lunch...
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Originally Posted by strongmanmike
Well, that's the way it was always done before GOTO..see, we are spoiled now  The result of your frustrations is really quite a nice image so Fa bene, non male per una notte di lavoro 
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Grazie Mille Mike. Half the problem with my searching was that I was on my knees trying to look up through the viewfinder when the scope was pointing to close to zenith! I think you'll agree it's not the easiest thing to do! I certainly had trouble latching on to something that I could recalibrate the Goto with! Maybe next time I should lie on the ground....
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Originally Posted by Lee
Agree on both! Nice image, and once you start plate solving, you'll wonder what you did before (actually you'll know what you did - missed targets!  ).... |
Thanks Lee. Yep, next time I will remember that I have Astrotortilla for plate solving on my laptop...I think this is a good time to use an old Greek saying that Efie made popular all those years ago.. "How embarrassment!"
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Originally Posted by jsmoraes
And ... M4 is very hard to shoot because of some interestelar clouds, coloring it with difuse pink 
Despite it, it is a nice image. Very good colors of stars. Congratulations! |
Thanks Jorge. I've never been happy with my previous attempts with M4 so am rather pleased that I managed to get the star colours that I have.
As an aside, when I was processing my data, I noticed that the brighter stars had a dark cross in them. They're still visible in my final large image so I've zoomed and cropped a couple of stars from my image as an example and have attached that image here. I'm thinking it's caused by the veins and secondary mirror of my RC8 - anybody care to express an opinion as to a possible cause?