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Originally Posted by strongmanmike
Did you use a focal reducer on the 80ED or was it taken at the native F7.5?
Did you crop the image at all?
How do you find MaxDSLR to work with?
Cheers
Mike
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Native 7.5 on the 80ED.
The only cropping was to remove stacking shadows at the edge of the frame, so the field of view is about 1.75 degrees.
MaxDSLR is a good product for aligning and for doing log stretch, bias and (sometimes) flats, however for those special shots I prefer to use it do a manual alignment because sometimes it rejects quite a few of my good subs (for reasons unknown). By doing manual star alignment it also lets me have a close look at star/image quality and to reject images as need be. With MaxDSLR you can't do any image processing other than basic stretch and curves. There's no histogram for example.
Now that I've got a new laptop I intend trying MaxDSLR's autoguiding and image acquisition features. Hope they work.