[Hagar (Doug)]

Originally Posted by gregbradley

Nicely done Doug. That's a very good result.

Greg.

Thanks Greg.

Originally Posted by TrevorW

Nice one Doug where are you diffraction spikes

Thanks Trevor. They are there just the stars are quite small and being Ha the spikes tend not to stand out quite so much.

Originally Posted by leinad

A very nice result; tracking and focus looks excellent on that one.
Be nice to see it again when you get some color into that

Thanks, Hopefully I will be able to gather some RGB data on this one in the near future.

Originally Posted by Paul Haese

Second crop is nice Doug. The wide field is good but the field curvature is a killer there.

On the crop I can see some dark halos around the stars. Both the first version and the second both seem to have this. Potential for this scope is very good. I like the small stars in the wide field. Looking forward to seeing the colour version.

Thanks Paul, Halos are sharpening artifacts and shouldn't be there. Star size was easy to control due to the fact it was Ha.

Originally Posted by Alchemy

The second image is much better, the tower now reveals much more detail, well worth the repro

Thanks Clive, still a couple of problems to look at but getting there I think.

This attachment has a bit more Halo reduction.