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Originally Posted by Dave882
Thanks Martin I appreciate you comments and encouragement! Ngc3132 has a very bright core but the outer regions are extremely faint which makes processing a challenge to get one without sacrificing the other.
I had 12 hrs under the moon, but the final 6 were under a full moon very close to target. This data was pretty noisy and I almost chucked it but managed to salvage it in the stack luckily. I’m not sure the noise was restricted to the o3 channel as it seemed to affect both (to a degree). Hard to say…
I was very fortunate to have 2 moonless nights in some of the best seeing I’ve ever had here. This is where pretty much all the fine detail came from. I’ve attached a screenshot of a single frame and my ASIAIR guiding on this night. My 20yr old eq8 still getting the job done!!
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The Skywatcher EQ8 Google Groups forum members ( me included) would drool at those guiding numbers , almost flat lining , incredible !!
I thought 0.45 was tight on my EQ8-R down south, Wow !!😲
M.