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Old 14-01-2014, 06:23 PM
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Originally Posted by stevous67 View Post
Excellent Mike. Lots of detail visible in such a small object, well done.

Steve
Hey cheers Steve, yes I was happy with that aspect too. At F3.8 I am working at just 1120mm FL so seeing and guiding are critical to take advantage of the small pixels in the SX camera (image scale: 0.83"/pix) and thus get high resolution results and although I have had better seeing the OAG guiding was very good for this data Except perhaps in really good seeing (which is very rare across most of OZ) I seem to be able to simulate results of a much longer FL scope and I guess that was the whole reason for going down the Starlightxpress route in the first place ...not that I wouldn't like to upgrade to a slightly larger compound scope in the near future too...and stop just simulating

Mike
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