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Originally Posted by Peter Ward
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It's a bit like when you keep putting smaller and smaller FL eyepieces in your scope, while the image gets closer and closer the image never the less deteriorates. Sure the image scale increases but the asthetic view, particularly percieved sharpness and brightness, through the eyepiece never the less decreases. There is a point of deminishing returns and one settles for the right eyepiece to give the best view taking into account seeing and image brightness.
Don't get me wrong Peter this is a lovely image in many ways but its over all look is one of too close is too close and it doesn't quite work for me..not that this really matters though only a trivial discusion really and I do like your image none the less, even if for no other reason than for its great image scale
A great example of where it "is" working for me is in Eddie Trimarchi''s image from a few years back done with his C11 at long FL with an AO7 and utilising more planetary imaging like techneques, and yes he has even detailed the homunculous around Eta
This is for me pound for pound one of the best amateur deep sky images around, very inovative and technically advanced for its day.
http://astroshed.com/st10pics/eta.jpg
Mike