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Old 15-04-2015, 12:41 PM
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Hi Marty,

I like the colours in your image and you managed to capture some detail - so not a bad attempt at all!

As others have already said, there are most likely a few factors affecting quality, so gradually eliminating them will help you in composing great astro photos.

I have noticed that stars show increasingly more distortion towards the bottom of the image, so I would definitely check collimation and also perhaps for camera's tilt to optical axis.

Light pollution will most certainly limit the degree of faint stuff you can capture - that's why many astro-imagers use cooled mono camera's with narrowband filters. But that costs quite a bit, and I think after tweaking your rig and properly polar aligning you will be able to campture some amazing astro images.
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