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Originally Posted by strongmanmike
That's beautiful Greg, lovely simple soft image and I agree with Marc, the stars are perfect. Yeh could do with a little sharpening maybe or less smoothing, as the case may be, but it is a fine image as is. The images from the 17" CDK are really showing great imposing image scale, other large RC's etc just don't seem to demonstrate this effect..? Perhaps it is the way they are processed or even posted..?  although I see a similar effect with Mike Berthon Jones images done with his 12.5" CDK..?
Mike |
Thanks Mike.
The lack of total exposure time limits the amount of sharpening I can do to it. I will add more exposure time to it like I have for some other images.
Clear weather has been so rare lately and it is still quite low in the sky.
I like the image scale but I am having trouble with bright star flares
just out of the image. I have to track down where they are coming from over the next week or so. But overall I like the CDK17. I think I'll be able to handle these flares and they are only a problem occassionally.
I need to make sure I turn the fans on early to let it equalise as you can't get a sharp focus with more than about .5C difference between the primary and ambient temperature. It takes maybe 2 hours to get there. Perhaps a little AC unit may help.
Greg.