[Placidus (Mike and Trish)]

Originally Posted by Slawomir

What a great image of a tiny bug!

Chasing smaller and fainter objects can be indeed very gratifying, excellent work M&T

Thanks Suavi. We're getting better at the "fainter" part. For the "smaller" part, we really need to get up enough courage to check the distance between the primary and secondary as part of collimation. To do that, we have to take the (very heavy and awkward) camera, guiders, and filter wheel off, and put in a Rhonchi grating, and then point to a bright star. Worried that the out of balance scope will fall on us. Might be safer to just try moving the secondary 1 mm in or out, re-focus, and seeing if the FWHM is better or worse. Good job for the full moon.

Originally Posted by Ross G

An amazing capture Mike & Trish, with an excellent description.

So detailed.....a beautiful object.

You guys are producing such extraordinary photos!

Ross.

Thanks for the encouraging words, Ross.