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Old 29-09-2021, 07:25 AM
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Originally Posted by Placidus View Post
You've brought out some very interesting detail at the top left, with a dark dusty area followed right at the top left of the galaxy by some blue star formation. We've never noticed that before. It's in our old RGB image if we screw our eyes up. The dusty area itself has a smaller dusty area, like a knob perhaps, with clear star formation around its edge. Good stuff.
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Originally Posted by strongmanmike View Post
Sorry Greg but that looks out of focus..? or really bad seeing

At least it has stars in it ...

Mike
Probably both. These 3.76 micron pixels need more refocusing than normal as temperature shifts. With the RHA I am imaging at .67 arc secs/pixel so perhaps I am better off imaging 2x2 and go for 1.34 arc secs/pixel and leave the 1x1 for nights of good seeing.

Greg.

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