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Old 05-05-2016, 03:24 PM
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Originally Posted by Somnium View Post
Last night I had 1 image with a fwhm of 2.2 arc seconds. Maybe I just need to take colour subs on average seeing nights and get the Lum data on fantastic seeing nights. Though they will be rare. I have no idea how some people get the shots that they do then. Maybe I need to move the obs to a place with much better seeing to get those really pinpoint stars, or invest in AO (not that it will provide that much of an advantage)
I think you'll find that a lot of people, including me, use decon and other techniques, e.g. MorphologicalTransformation in PI, to shrink the stars in their images.
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