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Originally Posted by atalas
 Hey guys what a tremendous shot......sooooo deep!I could study this field for months.
Fine work on NGC 6744 but, the deep field steals the show for me!
Awesome guys  |
Thanks muchly Louie. The deep field is often like those last tiny crunchy bits at the bottom of a bag of chips. Worth the forage.
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Originally Posted by strongmanmike
Wow...very cool....
Overall a great field, loved looking all around it and no worms or dots 
Strange  ... and I may be wrong, but.. there are several strange blobs throughout the field, including some red ones, that don't seem to be actual galaxies...?  is that RBI..?
Mike |
Thanks, Mike, thrilled that you like it. Yes, the blobs are indeed RBI from the focussing stars. We need to dither much more between subs. Then they would disappear with automatic outlier rejection.
The scope control software is written in hideously ancient Borland C++, and the Borland compiler won't run under anything after Windows 7. That means that to increase the dithering I have to put on lots of warm clothes, grab sandwiches and a thermos, and go up there and do quite a bit of programming. Spring is just around the corner. Why put off today what I can put off tomorrow?
Best,
Mike