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Originally Posted by strongmanmike
Well Kevin, those several hours of frustration still produced a lovely balanced and believable colour image of these jewels, excellent  I was looking at this up at Eagleview two nights ago with my son, through both binoculars and the 12" Dob and a wide field eyepiece, t'was really beautiful
Mike |
Thanks Mike,
I'm ashamed to say I have a couple of eyepieces that have never been attached to the business end of my OTAs. Ptolemy's cluster would be great through a Newtonian. Maybe I should try to actually look sometime...
I appreciate your comment. When I'm imaging in broadband I try to be true to the photons and not add what isn't there. I live in a Bortle 4 - 5 on the west side of the Canberra CBD. Looking east I get the light dome of Civic but looking west I get nice dark skies. Occasionally I've taken a scope to Orroral Valley which has been fun but I can only imagine how dark your skies are every night!