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Old 10-09-2016, 05:31 PM
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The nebula itself is fantastic! It is an area that I believe I have seen before but more likely to be something from Hubble Love the colour and fainter extensions that are showing up.

It is suffering from a number of mechanical issues though. The triangular stars are caused by either a pinched primary or secondary mirror (probably primary), there is a LOT of field curvature which is either going to be caused by a spacing error of ~5mm or, on a 10" system, no RC flattener.

Considering that it is from iTelescope.net there isn't anything that you can do about that I do have a bit of a gripe with iTelescope.net; for a company that has an entire business model around selling time on various telescopes, most of the data that I have seen come out of it has had issues in one form or another. Whether it be mechanical issues like above or stray light (light leaking into the optical systems) presumably caused by light being on in their facility.
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