Well, you try, sometimes it doesnt come out quite as planed .
Its a tiny little bugger, but bright. Its the only object Ive ever processed that you have to do negative curves to extract detail .
Try as I may, detail is pretty awefull, but then again I cant find any other pics that get even close to the Hubble pic, which is probably why its hard to find anything else on the net other than the Hubble pic, its just too hard .
Hehe, thanks Peter, screwed up the close up size, fixed now. Well, yes, should have bolted on the A07, but sooo, much bother (and no really bright stars). I had a poke in Dark skies with my GRAS scope, no diff, suspect any thing on earth would have trouble, but, mmmmmmmm A08?, would be interesting.
This may surprise many of our ISS viewers, but the AO7 under DOS (DOS what's DOS??!!) with an TC211 guide chip was the fastest off the shelf AO produced. It could push 30Hz no problem.
But it was a difficult beastie to use well....hence more sedate refractive optics were introduced into the AO8...and the AOL I now use.
They really do work. But I miss the normally aspirated Ferrari without the catalytic converter
Last edited by Peter Ward; 27-03-2009 at 08:52 PM.
Reason: typo
I've found AO7 to be difficult to use... however the results are good.. (and its HEAVY?!) I am currently saving towards USB electronics upgrade + AO-8 for my ST9E....
Good effort Fred.... Takes guts to chase such small objects from earth... Your result, whilst it lacks the intense detail of the hubble image, it is still a very commendable image....
On that note, Well done..
Thanks Alex, Ric. Yes, its an interesting planetary, there are so many out there Id love to image, and quite bright.
Alex, an A08 and ST9 would be a killer combo for mega narrow field, I like the way your heading, a very nice change after the same top 10 wide field monsters over and over.. Peter makes an interesting point on the speed of the A07, but sometimes convienence dictates the bother of even trying, I too find the A07 difficult, so it sits on the shelf.
Thanks Andrew, Al, Well, I dont know if more data will help on this, deconvolute and sharpen on smooth (read blured) data just creates artifacts, not that artifacts cant look smick, been there .
Suspect that kind of creative input wont work for long tho
Great effort there Fred.
Pulled some nice detail... and colour to boot!
Looks good to me.
Quite taxing on equipment getting up close and personal... some folks don't realise just how hard it can be, .. back in the days of using F9 & F12 scopes with .25 Mp chips..... man you certainly got to know how good or bad the PE was in your mount!!
And then it comes down to seeing/ transparency on top of that... if that's not so good..... give up!
.
.
.
but you have revealed some nice detail 
.
