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Originally Posted by batema
God I wish I could take images like that and process them as well as you do. Beautiful M8 for a lazy 1 hours worth.
Mark
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Thank you very much Mark, but I'm sure you will be doing the same soon enough, it's a bit like computer programming, "learn how to program by programming"
As for the 1 hour exposure...if I said it was 4 hours with my AP155 Starfire
there might be some approving "oh-ah's"... but really it's all about flux and object brightness.
Simple arithmetic can show that my 12" gather's light 4x faster than my 6". So rather than struggle for 4 hours with the smaller scope I can get the same result with a larger one in 1/4 of the time. This point seems lost on some..particularly those with big ego's
Professional Astronomers use *very large* telescopes for very similar reasons (ie. lack of observing time)