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Nice start to your new scope Mike but I think you have maybe suffered the same outcome as I did when using images which required scaling as well as alignment to make them work. I have found this to be the hardest thing to accomplish yet and even just a smidgen out on one of the colours does something to the image which is very dificult to recover from.
I have found that even using Registar to align the images doesn't do a good enough job and taking the images from there into CCDStack and doing a full manual alignment and rotational correction is the only way to go. (even with thyis I still get into trouble).
As an image to frame your new scope and as a first light image it's great. Shows the scope will become your workhorse I'm sure. It resolves the smallest stars beautifully and can only improve in your hands. Don't get to dejected with the comments.
It's great to see someone of your standing copping a bit, it makes the rest of us mere mortals feel human again.
Good luck with it all and lets see a full colour 12" image.
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