[Martin Pugh]

Hey Jase....great shot and great processing. I would love to have a 20" RC at my command one day!

Without checking, did the FOV of the 20"/STL limit the field? It would have made for an exceptional shot to have included NGC 2023....Adam Block's APOD of IC434/NGC 2023 was taken with a 20" RC I believe (albeit from Mount Lemmon)...and that is truly spectacular.

CCDSTACK - I never use more than 30 iterations when deconvolving and after many, many tries and experimentation, I can fairly safely conclude that the RGB creation/result is below my critical standards.....so I dont use it for that purpose...in fact, even with the new CCDIS plug-in, alignment often fails....and I mean often....you have to zoom and blink to see it, but it remains inferior to something like Maxim.

CCDStack will chew up memory and bog down any normal PC....I stopped using it, fed up with constant VM problems and dreadfully slow processing.....however, I now have a 64bit Vista PC with 8GB of RAM, and its operation is awesome. I can now have 20+ 41Mb images open, and it doesnt care, and I often run two deconvolution routines simultaneously, each with different settings to compare results.

Well done mate
cheers
Martin