[jase (Jason)]

Originally Posted by Bassnut

Excellent to see you up and running Jase !. Very tight and sharp pics, I can see some other galaxys in both fields.

The weather has suddenly become atrocious since you started imaging, murphys law smacked you hard right there ;-)

Thanks Fred. Wasn't smooth sailing with a few software glitches and guiding problems (two TSX bugs along the way which are now resolved with the latest build and PIR guiding angle related retrospectively). The system is nearly bedded down configuration wise to a point where its doing dusk and dawn flats automatically (when needed) and collecting around seven hours of data in between which isn't bad for this time of year with the short nights. TPoint model needs to be redone as one of the bugs impacted the accuracy. Was hoping to get that done this weekend but as you say, the weather has turned for the worse albeit completely unrelated to me starting to do any imaging

Originally Posted by strongmanmike

Ah don't ya just love galaxy season

Both lovely image Jase

IC 5332 is indeed a faint bugger so you have captured it very nicely.

NGC 300 is excellent too, I like the highlighted HII as well (Greg probably doesn't though )

Looove all the background galaxies too

I notice odd star shapes in both images though what is causing this do you recon?

Mike

Thanks Mike. IC5332 is my pick of the two. I can't find many amateur images of this. Perhaps you can give it whirl. Interesting pick up on the star shapes. The flare around the stars don't agree with deconvolution which explains the odd shape. The raw subs are near perfect but a primary aperture mask would likely clean up the optical path further. There are a few other ways to address this with processing such as relayering the master as a star mask that is not passed through deconvolution which I may progress with in the next few images. Thanks for the feedback.