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I’m pretty confident the focus is ok but certainly my processing skills aren’t doing me any favours. Bear in mind its a mag10 40” x 60” object!
Yes it received a huge crop because:
1) the surrounding star field wasn’t really the centre of attention. Most of the time I’ve seen pn’s presented they receive a similar crop
2) I’m still waiting for the new el panel to arrive so the flats are not adequate. As soon as I started processing I had all kind of artefacts around the edges so needed to do a big crop otherwise the startools algorithms were going nuts trying to flatten the image.
In addition, I binned my asi294mc pro 2x2 on capture to achieve a better pixel ratio, and I think that’s upset some things in startools algorithms again. It all got very blocky very quickly. Not sure if that’s a thing with startools or something wrong I did…
Next time I’ll do it at the native f11 and unbinned to see what happens. But in the meantime I’m happy to get a result!
Very much would appreciate any additional constructive critiques to help with future processing.
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