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Originally Posted by Tandum
That's one dim galaxy Rick. I had a bash at it last year and had to bin everything x2 to see it with the RC8 so you've done well here.
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The dark skies at Glen Aplin certainly helped, Robin, as Rob suggested. Thanks, mate!
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Originally Posted by [1ponders]
Nice shootin' Rick.
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Thank you, Paul.
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Originally Posted by RobF
From Glen Aplin no doubt? Testamony to the dark skies, as I've only ever had any success with this from Wiruna. Even from Peter's it was tough, but there was smoke in the air that night/year as I recall.
I was a bit surprised at stars. Very round, so tracking spot on. Is is possible focus was a smidge off, or cumulative seeing effect perhaps at such small arcsec/pixel?
Regardless, one of the better 6744s you'd find on IIS I'd wager, especially with a big of colour tweaking (again, agree colour quite tough to get right - Marcus did a great one here a year or so ago from memory might be worth peeking at.
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Rob, the AO does a good job of tracking if you get a decent guide star. I was running it at 3-4Hz most of the night. I was refocusing with FocusMax about every hour as the temperature was dropping quite quickly. The seeing was OK but not fantastic, especially on the Friday night. The other factor is my collimation which I think is not bad, but may not be perfect.
Thanks for your comments. I'm going to miss the next new moon weekend as I'll be on a plane somewhere over the Pacific, so I have a couple of months to spend honing my processing skills on the Glen Aplin data! I also have 7 hours on NGC 4038/4039 that shows some promise...
Cheers,
Rick.