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Old 11-04-2012, 07:21 AM
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Originally Posted by cventer View Post
That shows a lot of promise. Once you get guiding nailed those images will be spectacular.

Love the colliding Antennae galaxies. Your color processing is great. What LRGB filters are you using ?
Thank you, I'm using the Astrodon Tru-Balance Generation 2 E-Series. I'm very impressed with them, seems like excellent quality and very easy to work with.

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Originally Posted by alpal View Post
Good start.
Are you using an OAG?
Thanks, yes I'm using the in-built OAG.

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Originally Posted by bmitchell82 View Post
Ide say your not using the OAG yet because those issues do not come into play unless you have some really shocking wind or your setup is that far out of whack.

That also looks like flexure why? because i have seen it before with the same smearing of the image. Rolf if you are using a guide scope ditch it unless your 10" is impartial to flexure which generally they are not in one form or another be it tube/mounting/accesories. Thats why when ever i see people with 8"+ newts, unless they are high end construction, then its OAG all the way!

As for the images they are looking nice, the Antenna have been my bane so far every time i have looked at them i have been thwated one way or another!

Brendan
Thank you Brendan, I am using the QAG but I have since made some adjustments to my setup. I knew my polar alignment needed a bit of an update, after all the work I did when I built the new truss tube OTA it must have come slightly out of alignment. After polar aligning again the guiding now seems much tighter. I also switched to using the guiding in Maxim rather than PHD, and what a difference that made! Some more work on collimation also paid off, so I'll post an update with some new images soon.

Thanks all for your comments so far.
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