Hi eveyone,
I have some bad news for you for, especially Dennis, you were right to query the brightness of the pup in the image, I found out there is another object that's accidendently aligned over the top of the pup....
The story is (this is hard
) when I was imageing earlier in the year I was very in experianced with this device and more importantly with the after processing of the captured images.
At the time of this shot I did not truely understand the concept of the RGB fits files and combined all the best images regardless of there RGB designation into one Black & white image.
It was not till a bit later that I woke up to the use of these in combining them into coloured images.
I also was not up on the stacking and alignment process and was still teaching myself this process and didn't understand what was happening especially with auto star matching.
Since then I do have a lot more understanding of what can happen as I have seen some very strange and weird results, which I usualy scrap.
Anyway to make this clear about the photo below... I went looking for the original fits files but looks like I deleted them, all I have left (not anymore :x ) are four previously stacked images which the header says are composed of 37 stacked images.
I am quite surprised I didn't see this in the stacking process but when I looked at some of these individual files with the screen streach up this what I got........
http://www.rodroger.com/rr/images/as...us_stuffup.jpg
I swear to you all that I did not do this on purpose, this is something Maxim DL 4 has done. To me it looks like it has some how decided to overlay some of the frames (which didn't have the pup?) over the pup, effectively overlaying the primary over the fainter seconday. What the @#%^%
This why it is so bright, but makes this shot of the split worthless. I feel like a real idiot, truely shows my inexperiance
what a learning experiance this has been.
Oh well I am going to have to go back and image this again. Pitty I can't find the original fits as I know now I can fix this stupid stupid mistake.
I am so embarressed by this - SORRY GUYS , what can I say.
Rod