Quite excited with this image!
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It's a result of some mods I made to my 8" astrograph, it's certainly made a difference with the amount of detail I'm getting.
I've nearly eliminated flexure in the optical system and have quite accurate optical alignment.
Certainly way better than I've ever had before!!
Stars are quite small now but still not perfect, I think this due to guiding.
Another polar alignment and a final tweak with the guiding and it should be humming.
I've supplied a crop as well to show the detail.
Also a link to a previous image to show the difference.
http://i1172.photobucket.com/albums/.../TYCrabest.jpg
8" F/4 astrograph HEQ pro 5 mount. Orion mini guider.
Unmodded canon 1100D, baader type III coma corrector.
30 x 5 minute subs, ISO 1600 and 5 x 2 minutes ISO 800'
Stacked in DSS, processed in PS7.
Cheers,
Justin.