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Thanks guys I appreciate the comments!
Mike- it’s been hard to be too picky this last year with current sky conditions- guess at least it ain’t snowing here… Your shots are always top notch mate! I have to confess I usually search through the IIS archives for your imaging projects when I’m processing something to double check my colour balance and I haven’t done something silly with my process.
Cheers Stephane- yes it scrubbed up ok- the hardest bit was the shadow right through the middle of the galaxy (think that was the top bar of the fence) it was not possible to level that out completely without loosing detail but it’s not too noticeable. This and m31 are on my list to image properly from a darker location but it’s gotta be the right conditions or just not worth the trip.
Thanks Marc- yeah not toooo bad when the size is compressed down to 200kb- full size shows much more issues. A c14 @ F1.9 has its trade offs but when you’ve gotta go fast I reckon it’s hard to do better than that…
Thanks Martin- yep as far as versatility goes the c14 is currently my visual, planetary, deep sky and wide-field scope… she’s nudging 25yrs old but still a beautiful beast of a scope. I reckon when I’m pointing south I’m closer to b6 but to the north (into city lights) it’s definitely 7 at least. Yes I’ve got my eyes on Friday for some planetary imaging since the moons going to be quite big. Clear sky and good jet stream predictions but don’t want to say anything to jinx it!!
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