[Hagar (Doug)]

Originally Posted by telemarker

Amazing the amount of detail picked up by the little scope. Great images.

Regards
Keith

Thanks Kieth, This scope is really a keeper and produces great detail all the time. Focus is it's biggest bug bear.

Originally Posted by mill

Doug i saw this image on your laptop and it looked a lot better than here with the jpeg compression

Thanks Martin, I would like to be able to blame the compression but it is probably the fact that I had to reprocess it as I didn't save the version at Snake Valley.

Originally Posted by richardo

Great result Doug considering you thought it wasn't going to happen!

I've done exactly the same thing many times after replacing parts and formatting machines.... you get all exited as the night looks great then hit something and wham.... nada.... then you work out you forgot to load ASCOM or you didn't have the latest update or something or other.. generally these nights are dedicated to problem solving and nothing gets done...

Tend to agree with H and Mike, needs some more blue channel,... looks a little brown in my monitor.
All in all though, there's some nice detail showing especially for your aperture.
I think also the focus or the seeing was a bit soft this night. If you haven't already, get yourself a motorised focuser... I believe from comments from Greg Bradley and others, these scopes are notorious for needing to be tweaked as the night wears on.
But truly, these are lovely scopes, bet you love it!!

All the best
Rich

Thanks Rich, I have a Robofocus fitted to the scope and was a little surprised that the focus shift during the session was very small for once.

I have included a repro with a bit more blue to see if it looks a bit better. I think I am going blind quickly these days. Fine detail and colour is getting harder.