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Hi Mike - ever since Kent Wallace inspired me to take planetary nebula observations seriously with a big dob, it really highlighted the gap between the eyepiece view at high power and the best amateur images of which this is definitely one. It's interesting to compare your image - there is a wealth of detail in there that's too faint to see in the 25", but because of the long exposure a lot of the subtle fine structure is lost. Still - a wonderful effort!
I guess we're going to need planetary style video imaging to show these objects off. Next generation of cameras maybe?
Cheers
Andrew.
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