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Originally Posted by cometcatcher
That's a nice looking Lagoon Rusty.
I see Astro shop have a focal plane tilt adjuster in the adapters section, though it's $90. My ED80 definitely needs one.
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Thanks Kevin, I'll look into that for sure - I hadn't noticed much tilt on your images though but I guess you've been using the newt more these days.
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Originally Posted by Rex
Nice repro Rusty, not sure about the orange bits but I really like the smooth natural look of the rest. I hear you about the focuser tilt, I have been battling a similar problem for what seems like forever. I think I have almost got it now, so keep at it mate and the only advice I can give is make small adjustments at a time, so you can see when you get to the right place, otherwise you end up overshooting back and forth. Not that I am speaking from experience or anything......  |
Thanks Rex, yep focuser tilt is annoying I hope you manage to sort yours out soon. I actually noticed the other night doing the compression ring up by tightening too much on one side early on would actually introduce quite a lot of tilt. it seems to have reduced it but its still there so i'll look into solutions.
Yep I hear you on the 'orangey' part struggling to get it right, perhaps another preprocess is in order
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Originally Posted by strongmanmike
That's great Rusty, looking a bit blown in the core I guess (but not too bad) but that nice spread of magenta Ha/Hb gas looks great, this often gets processed out 
Edit: Actually, after taking another look the core isn't really blown as such but rather probably just not matching the rest of the neb to my eye..?
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Thanks Mike, yep I agree the core is a bit funny, its waaay better than my first process attempt, i'll have another crack at I think - I grabbed some new data last night - I think with less tilt. I agree the right hand side of the image looks nice to my eyes too