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Originally Posted by madbadgalaxyman
There is a serious scientific question in your image about the size (big?)(small?) of the bulge component of M104!
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Originally Posted by clive milne
The light diffracted from the nucleus of the galaxy (by the spider vanes) will be roughly aligned with the peanut lobes. There is one sure way to confirm or deny whether it is a diffraction artefact or not... rotate the ota by 45 degrees and give it another go. Or just use the RH and see if it still there.
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Thanks for your insight gentlemen.
I have used the RH on M104...but found the focal length was simply too short to provide any decent image scale...hence didn't persist with it.
Might be worth re-mounting the RCOS to see what gives
