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Craig,
That’s a beautiful M8 indeed , you certainly captured some data there
Great detail and colour
It’s a shame your ASI533 has a smallish sensor size ( 11.3mm x 11.3mm ) as you couldn’t quite frame the whole nebula in the image ( or did you crop some edges ? )
I use a 2600MC with my 8” and 6” newts , same EQ6-R mount , the 2600MC has a 23mm x 15mm sensor and I can capture the whole nebula with some interstellar background around it with both scopes
FOV in arc minutes = camera sensor size in mm ( width / height) x 3460 / scope focal length . You can work out whether you can frame your targets with your set up and this FOV equation before your choose them or know what to expect. Bintel has a FOV calculator as well
Still a fantastic image
Well done !!
Martin
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