[Shiraz (Ray)]

Originally Posted by SimmoW

a great example of the KISS principle. Quite beautiful.

thanks you Simon. yep, KISS it is

Originally Posted by alpal

Hi Ray,
that's an amazing picture considering it's a magnitude 10 target.
What telescope exactly did you use & is it from a dark site?

cheers
Allan

Hi Allan. thank you. The site was fairly dark when the moon went down - it's a country town. The scope is a 200mm f4 GSO.

Originally Posted by gregbradley

Sweet shot of one of my favourite galaxies. Lots of detail.
Love it.

Greg.

Thanks Greg. it sure is a really beautiful galaxy

Originally Posted by David Fitz-Henr

Yes, nice shot Ray, especially considering the rush job on the scope

Thanks very much David.

Originally Posted by allan gould

That is a really great image, Ray. One that I would be really proud of if it were mine.
Glad you had the ability to put all your equipment together and produce something for us to see.
Allan

Thanks Allan . despite the mad scramble to get the system working, I was very pleased to get this image.

Originally Posted by strongmanmike

Watch you talkin'bout Willis that's excellent, the scope looks like it was working bloody perfectly great result...now getting the colour right on this one is a different story though

Mike

Colour hmmm - I doubt that stars will register properly - the bright ones here have been somewhat reconstituted. Have some really bad colour data from a 5 arc sec night so maybe will give it a go.

The imaging system really was far from perfect and I had to nurse it along with refocusing every few frames to keep the astigmatism buried in the seeing disk. But it worked just well enough .

regards Ray