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Originally Posted by gregbradley
Very very nice. Background though is a tad black clipped and some slight elongation in the stars. Was that the polar alignment seeing as you were out in the field?
Very sharp though. Better than mine with a CDK17 at home.
Greg.
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Thanks, Greg. I'm not sure whether I might have managed to damage the stars somehow in the processing. When I did the PSF estimation for deconvolution I picked 60-70 stars and the average aspect ratio was up in the high 0.9s and there wasn't any consistency in rotation angle. That said, I'm sure my polar alignment wasn't perfect. I get so little time under dark skies that I don't spend a lot of time tweaking it. I'll see if I can fix the stars (and the black clipping) in my next repro attempt.
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Originally Posted by naskies
Beautiful - well done! I love that ultra smooth (but not out of focus) look. Yep, I agree that the second night in the field when all you have to do is switch on power is pure bliss.
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Thanks, Dave. I hope you're going to get some quality dark sky time once semester is over!
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Originally Posted by Martin Pugh
Nicely done Rick
Martin
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Thank you very much, Martin!