Hi again everyone..
Was surprised last night tofind that the skies had cleared so I set the alarm for early this morning after the moon had set..Seeing was very good so I set up to image M45 (Pleiades) with my newt.
Everything went smoothly with a good focus and good seeing and I did very well with the guiding...
After I had finished I went and reviewed the images only to find coma showing up all along the bottom half of the image...
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Done a quick go at M42 with no probs, so it looks like its my tube thats causing all my headaches and flexing more as one moves away from Zenith..
Oh well might have to rebuild the sucker...
Anyways after some processing to minimize the coma I have come out with a rather nice image.
Could have been much better but will have to wait to next time.
Image is 14 x 4 min with 6" f/5.6 and canon 300D
Stacked in DSS and finished of in PS..
Very little work on the background but plenty on the stars!!
All comments welcome..
cheers Gary