Astonishing sharpness-resolution-detail. Just breathtaking. And beautiful, too.
Does your camera have an electronic shutter? We'd wear ours out doing that. How long does an image take to download? The 0.34" arc resolution - is that at 1x1, meaning 0.67" arc binned, or is it actually 0.34" arc binned, meaning native 0.17" unbinned?
You mentioned waiting for the best seeing - we understand that means selecting the very best frames. Does it also mean only photographing near the meridian, or waiting for exceptional weather, poring over jet stream predictions, etc?
Did you use adaptive optics as well? If not, would it help?
What was the FWHM in the very best frames?
Unbelievable work. We're thinking of selling the scope and using our observatory to store farm chemicals.
Very best,
Mike and Trish
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