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Old 15-04-2015, 11:25 PM
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Omega unplugged

My FSQ106 has been in moth-balls for way too long...so I spent most of the afternoon switching optics, re-balancing the mount, finding adapters, then finding it wouldn't focus unless I used *different* adapters and so it went.....as did the beautiful blue-sky day...so I watched the storms for a time....

Anyway, that's not my point.

Sometimes, things just work. No square/triangular/oblong stars here.

5 minutes of exposure time within a cloud break can often warm the (astro-imaging) soul.

Sure there are deeper/more colourful Omega's out there....but teeny pristine stellar gems over such a vast field are rare birds. (this full-res view was cropped 50% to keep it web friendly)

So what am I on about? The link is here

P.S.
No stars were sharpened, de-convolved, reshaped or injured after the exposure. Soothing gamma only applied.

Last edited by Peter Ward; 16-04-2015 at 06:32 AM. Reason: Correcting autocorrect
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