[Zuts]

Originally Posted by Gama

Is it tracking ?, as if you look at the direction of both top left and top right side stars, they point/trail to a common centre, so i would say you have field distortion rather than tracking. Maybe play with the reducer and spacing.
Apart from that, you got some good detail from a hard object.

Theo

Thanks Theo.

The thing i cant understand is that the first two images I took were fine. All the stars were round to the edges. The 3rd showed some egginess and this showed a lot of egginess. This was taken at around 4.30 am in the morning and i noticed that i was no longer getting sub pixel guiding, it had jumps upto 1.5 pixels. This is why I assume my mount had settled and thrown the alignment out.

Originally Posted by Garyh

Came up very nicely Zuts!
Nice detail for a little TV!
cheers Gary

Thanks Gary.

The '85 performs quite well and is also great for visual. I think its a great all round scope. For galaxies though I would love a bit more image scale.

Originally Posted by iceman

Nicely done Paul, you're coming along really quickly with the new camera now.

Always enjoyable images.

Hi Mike,

Thanks for the vote of confidence.

Originally Posted by peter_4059

There's some nice detail in there Paul. Well done.

Hi Peter,

There is some detail, but as Gama says this may be a difficult object for a small scope. I took a similar hour of data on M83 from Glebe and got far more detail than this taken under dark skies. Still I am happy with the result.

Originally Posted by KenGee

Man what time did you go to sleep, it don't raise until 1 am. Have you got a wife that thinks your mad like I have? Great image.

Hi Ken,

Went to bed around 5am. I grabbed a few hours sleep in the car and then drove back to Sydney. I am fortunate/unfortunate to be seperated so only have to worry about the kids

Originally Posted by Ric

A nice capture Paul, haven't seen much of this galaxy but it is certainly photogenic.

Cheers

Thanks for the comments Ric. It was 4am in the morning, I wanted at least one galaxy and stumbled across this one. I wanted a face on spiral but on a one minute test shot since it came out ok I kept on. Any more mucking around and I would have needed to swap the TV85 with a PST.


Paul