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Originally Posted by jahnpahwa
Nice one, Martin!
The long and slender diffraction spikes from Alnitak scream precision to me, and I have no idea if that is the case or not... Just looks sharp 
Interesting colour to the flame. Have you imaged this without the duo band with this camera? |
Martin,
+1 for the quote.
The split spike in one direction and the less good spike opposite is usually present in my pictures. I put it down to a misadventure of my 'scope. It slid out of a borrowed mount and hit my foam ob floor about a metre below.. Destroyed the mounted camera but the effect on subsequent imaging was to produce the split fork. I put it down to one slightly deformed spider vane.
Usually my focusing is done to minimse the fork whilst retaining two good spikes.
You might examine your spider vanes.
Chris