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Originally Posted by marc4darkskies
In honour of your heart shaped stars ....  There's a curious diffraction pattern around your stars too - is that part of the same problem?
As for the image as a whole - what's to say except - excellent, I love it! 
BTW, I have a serious case of Alluna envy!! |
The problem seems to be with the latest generation of Maxim's handling of the AO-X...which now randomly deflects the guide star to 80-90% of the limit in the guide box.
Diffraction Ltd. tell me there is a fix in the works...
I appreciate many might see this as a "first world" problem
That said the resolution is still good. The close triple at the Triffid's core
is resolved and the two snail's head antennae (seen at 3 o'clock) are nicely resolved.
Interestingly with standard guiding, the stars became round but predictably get fatter FWHM's at the same time.... sigh...swings and roundabouts!
P.S. I've added a
h-alpha image to my m8 rendering. Given the FL used and seeing
in the previous version of MaxIm... the Alluna's stars seem round enough prior to the update.
