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Originally Posted by gregbradley
As with the other posts - great central dust lane detail.
As Mike pointed out some of those central area stars have suffered in the process and there is also a blue bias in the background. Minor really as the key aspect of your image is the tremendous detail in the dust lane.
I would be happy if I got that level of detail from the CDK17. What scope is this?
Greg.
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Greg
The comments you and others have made are quite valid and the repro will be handled better to bring out the data. I hurried it to see what I had.
Anyway the scope I use is the first one I ever purchased in 1995 after I won a CSIRO medal for science and used the money to purchase a Meade LX50 10"SCT. The mount was crap and frustrated me for years trying to do astrophotography so I took the OTA off, sold the fork arms and put it on an old Losmandy G11 mount that just purrs along. Optically its a great OTA and meshes well with the QSI583 for the detail.
I've just done a few hours on M104 and again good detail but a bad gradient from Brisbane light pollution. ATM I'm trying to image NGC6744 but the light pollution is really washing out the faint details, which is a pity as its a nice galaxy. Ill see what I eventually wind up with.