[gregbradley]

Originally Posted by Garyh

beautifully done again Greg!
You are doing soo sweetly on these little galaxies!

Thanks Gary. That was the original intention behind getting the ML8300. To get enough image scale to image galaxies. I wouldn't mind a bit more image scale but F5 is a great F ratio to image at.

Greg.

Originally Posted by strongmanmike

Sorry for not comenting earlier Greg.

This is great. I generally don't mind optical effects in images but in this case I have to say that star does destract the eye a little, not bad just annoyingly, it looks marvelous as an even tighter crop IMO

Excellent res too

Mike

I've had a few bad reflections in some of those galaxy images. I like this crop. I also posted a crop earlier too that was similar. I desaturated the star as it was obviously in the blue filter. I have since received some spacers from Gerd for these Astronomik filters. I wonder if the blue filter was not seated flat as I just have some bent cardboard washers with black electrical tape holding them down. They are 1mm thick in a 3mm housing so they have 2mm of looseness unless pushed in. I think they are slightly loose but when imaging the angle of the scope no doubt seats them back a bit in the housing - perhaps not! I'll find out next time I use them.

Originally Posted by Ric

Avery nice image Greg, I love it's unusual shape.

Cheers

Originally Posted by spearo

very nice image indeed
frank

Thanks Frank. I am happy with the BRC/FLI ML8300 combo. I'll be testing out the TEC/ML8300 combo next on galaxies. Not sure what I'll see as both scopes are the same focal length but the BRC is F5 and the TEC is F7. I am expecting the TEC to be sharper but may take a little longer to get there.

Greg.