Thanks everyone for the comments, I do really like to hear peoples opinions and appreciate people taking the time to get involved. Thanks People for the support.
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Originally Posted by marc4darkskies
Lovely image Paul! Shame about the slight elongation at the corners but a minor point in the scheme of things and doesn't detract from the scene. Nice saturation and composition too. Interested to know what the glow is in the bottom right corner?
Cheers, Marcus
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Yeah the elongation as pointed out is a pain in the butt, but that is most likely a shimming issue and some flex still present in the system. As I said earlier I have something in the mill that I am getting made up to resolve the problem and GSO are looking into the design of this part of the scopes to accommodate larger payloads. These cheaper scopes require a bit of tinkering to get them operational. To me that is ok so long as the optics are good.
I really don't know what that glow is. It is present in all the data to some degree. There was also some on the left hand side too (I cropped this out) but that looked more like some form of nebulosity. I can't imagine it is any light pollution because I am almost pointed south most of the time. It is a mystery and perhaps Robert might come up with something here. It is whispy through other parts of the image too. So it could be calibration, or just legit dust??? It might be a reflection off the interior of the dome too with some LED light, though other test images in other parts of the sky did not show this at all.
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Originally Posted by Peter Ward
I've been down the track for a bit, sorry, missed this one.
An elegant image Paul. It has nice " balance " to my eye....( hint: excellent CWAS contender )
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Will certainly get more data on this Pete and had hoped to put it up this year. With any luck I can pull another 20-30 hours next new moon to finish it off and maybe make it a good entry. In any event I just want to make it a great image. Then onto the next object.