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Originally Posted by Camelopardalis
That's stunning, good work M&T  |
Thanks, Dunk!
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Originally Posted by Atmos
Fantastic shot Mike & Trish! Hundreds of tiny background galaxies coming though!
Found a couple of things I couldn't quite figure out what they were.
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Hi, Colin,
Artifacts of unknown origin. We focus once per frame, due to effects of heavy cameras, off-axis guider, and 10 position filter on the sadly inadequate (and already once replaced) focuser. A side effect is problems with ghosting after-images from bright stars in the focus shot. We don't want to flush the sensor between shots, because that measurably increases noise, and we're more interested in catching faint stuff than we are in getting rid of these blobs of ectoplasmic slime (don't cross the beams). If we did more colour subs, statistical outlier rejection should get on top of them.
Glad to see you're looking so closely!
Best,
M & T