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Originally Posted by Martin Pugh
This has excellent potential Mike when you add the colour. I really look forward to seeing that result.
See if you can tame the flaring though....and that will be your challenge.
Fine image.
cheers
Martin
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Hey thanks for taking a peek Martin
Like Ha only images, big deep B&W galaxy fields take me back to my early days when I saw a few UK Schmidt and Palomar plates.
As for the star flare, it is a bit of an enigma really, this sort of star diffraction pattern is characteristic of having several small protrutions into the light path edge, like might be caused by wires routed along RC spider vanes and mirror edge clips etc..
...but I just can't see'em anywhere
..maybe shinny bits in the 4" FF and associated extensions can cause this too? Anyhoo I have grown used to it now, like RC and Newt users have to really I guess, the super resolution capabilities of the Starfire don't seem to be compromised...but then perhaps it could be even better
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Originally Posted by marco
Nice one Mike, but again I have to say it's time for you to upgrade to a larger telescope  At least you can keep comparing with all those Hubbles' narrow fields
My compliments also on the Seagull, really nice one
Clear Skies
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I am upgrading, should be here any day now..??
..bigger and faster with a slightly wider field of view (1.8deg X 1.8deg) but it will have slightly less focal length 1140mm v 1300mm.
Sooo, fingers crossed
Mike