That's interesting about the guiding over correcting, just another thing that can go wrong with this game. Has the tendancy to stretch the frustration levels at times.
I was trying to image Saturn last weekend with a video cam but couldn't get it to stay in view unless I reduced the resolution to a point that made it worthless. At least I proved the camera works I suppose.
Yeah, the detail was pretty good for a "roughie", just goes to show your ability and the gear you're using is pretty good.
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Originally Posted by codemonkey
Thanks mate :-) Yeah, the only thing more frustrating than new gear with bad weather is new gear, good weather and technical difficulties!
Thanks raymo :-)
Thanks Steve, appreciate that :-) First galaxy I ever looked at (besides the LMC / SMC which I originally thought were clouds until I realised they were repeatedly in the same place) was M83.
It was a serious attempt that got foiled... I processed it for a laugh because I didn't expect to get anything remotely worthwhile out of binned red and blue subs only. I was pretty surprised at the colour I managed to get out of it in the end though.
Hopefully soon I'll be able to give this a real shot... lots of very thin cloud around right now but I'll try tonight, although it'll probably turn into a test run where I try and sort out these issues rather than actually doing any serious imaging.
The diamond shaped stars are due to my guiding continually over-correcting, possibly due to bad seeing / configuration.
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