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Originally Posted by strongmanmike
Looking very good Marcus 
Gee, you're coming up to a year now since getting that beasty...you must be quite frustrated...but I am sure the intervening trials and tribulations and getting them ironed out will have be worth it in the end 
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Cheers Mike! If I can just catch a break with some good weather & seeing!
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Originally Posted by Paul Haese
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So when do you think you will start producing images now? I think your collimation is as close to perfect as you can get.
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Well, this was the start my first post-collimation project - no more tweaking now. If the clouds hadn't come in I'd have gathered the Lum data at least.
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Originally Posted by RickS
Looks great, Marcus. Hope you get some good weather soon... I hope I do too  |
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Originally Posted by DaveNZ
Your making good progress Marcus. Lookin forward to the up coming imagers!
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Cheers chaps! Me too!!!
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Originally Posted by Shiraz
The scope really looks the goods Marcus - how often do you get such good seeing?
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Over the winter the seeing was quite bad on the majority of nights (I've seen a lot of jet stream activity over me in recent months via SkippySky). I'm expecting that to improve as the weather warms a bit. I've been pretty lucky with many of my images in the past. I get very good seeing nights often enough to be confident that it's not a rare event. Beggars can't be choosers though, so I'll be happy if the seeing is good to average (low 2's FWHM). Anything in the mid to high 2's will be useless for anything other than chrominance data gathering. 3 or more, forget about it!