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Old 02-04-2008, 10:03 AM
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The stars are nice and tight - a bit faint and a shade green. So well done.

Advice - processing - Photshop CS or MaximDL - levels and curves to boost the signal - maybe go a tad longer on duration but don't blow out the core and check colour levels of your camera against a white reference star (G2V) (some in the Southern Cross) i.e.

http://www.astropix.com/HTML/I_ASTROP/CUSTOMWB.HTM

With only basic processing - it looks like this
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