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Old 09-05-2008, 11:56 PM
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Doug,

No problemo....and my apologies, I did not mean to confuse you with my data...it was merely an example of datum to converge to.

I suspect you data is quite good. It's very difficult for me to do much with .jpg files.

Your scope should be able to produce needle like stars.

That said, galaxies are not the best target (you really need 2000mm + ). There is a lot of wider field stuff that the instrument will excel in recording.

So
1) Focus
2) Tracking
3) Deep subs (anything less than 5 minutes is a waste of time)
4) Don't forget the calibration frames (darks/flats)

The rest is simply the dark art of image processing....
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