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Originally Posted by allan gould
Very detailed image for an hours worth of luminance, really like it.
I imaged this at Astrofest last year and found it to be a relatively easy target at the time but low as you say and I only managed B/W as well.
One I may do with the 10" again at Astrofest this year.
Allan
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I started imaging it with the CDK and it looked good but there is no substitute for perfectly dark skies. So the subs from the TEC with the dark skies looked a lot better.
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Originally Posted by RickS
A lovely galaxy and a great image of it, Greg!
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Thanks Rick. I'd love to go deep with this one and get a nice colour image but B & W is a nice way to present some objects I think.
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Originally Posted by PRejto
Very nice shot Greg. I must say I really envy you that TEC180!!! It looks like you solved that bloating issue with the Trius/TEC180 combination. Mind sharing what the problem was?
Peter
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Thanks Peter. The TEC180 is a hot scope no doubt about that. I haven't solved the bloating issue although its worse in some images than others. I simply have developed an effective processing technique to handle the bloated stars. I've been very tricky hehehe. I have 2 solutions I plan to try. Firstly I bought some black cardboard from the News Agent and plan to make a little baffle for the CCD window with a cutout for the sensor. And secondly try using my Astronomik filters to see if they work better. If they do I'll buy the latest gen of the Astronomiks to use with it. Thirdly I will try using another software to run the camera - pehaps the AX supplied software to see if its merely a software conflict as 2x2 binning does not display properly in CCDsoft for example.
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Originally Posted by Shiraz
really nice image Greg - hard work that low down. regards Ray
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Cheers Ray. At least it got the scope out of the wind stream!
Greg.