[Paul Haese]

Thanks guys for the comments. Things are progressing along now. I have done a lot of work since this image and I think I am getting very close to final commissioning.

Originally Posted by RickS

Looks much improved, Paul. Stars still a little off at top left (eccentricity of 0.4 or greater is visually round) but otherwise very good.

I don't know if you've been following my experiments with fast lenses but you're doing better than me

Cheers,
Rick.

I found that it is tiny little tweaks to the collimation and the spacing of the corrector. It is frustrating because the scope is 90km away from home and I cannot just simply walk out and get it sorted. It's closer than these figures now.

Originally Posted by troypiggo

Looks great. I like this glob - bit of variety in star colours.
I wonder what that purple star is bottom of glob - a planetary?

I thought the same thing Troy. I have not found it on my charts.

Originally Posted by gregbradley

Hmmm, how much did you pay?

Great on your progress but as you say for a perfectionist like yourself more to go.

Lovely colours in the stars.

Greg.

I paid way too much for this scope. Landed was around the 14-15K mark. Optically it is fine but the way it arrived made it hard to sort it out quickly. Better instructions on getting the secondary in the right position would help. You only need to be a millimetre out from centre and this upsets the whole system. Not to mention that rotation needs to be near perfect. I'll write a review at some point.

Originally Posted by alpal

Hi Paul,
that's a nice first pic.

It's hard to tell what's going on after it's been processed.
How do the stars look in the raw FITS in separate LRGB when
you use Maxim DL in 3D mode by putting a box around the stars?
The pic you've presented looks like many stars are flat topped mountains
maybe due to reaching the well depth.
They should be pointy conical shaped little mountains.


cheers
Allan

Stretching would have created that flat top look. Stacking certainly evened out the shapes of the stars but fortunately I did not need to do a lot of work to the stars.