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[jjjnettie (Jeanette)]

A fast 50 minutes of 5 minute subs @ ISO800
I ditched the autoguider for the night. It's been giving me so much grief lately, and I just wanted to enjoy the night. And I did.
Manually guided using K3, Startarg and Magnifier.
Camera...20d
Scope...ED80
Mount...HEQ5Pro
A very quick levels and curves in CS3. (tired processing) I'll do more work on this one over the weekend, after I read up on colour balancing and such.

[bluescope]

Looking good ... you've come a long way with your imaging ... hand guiding as well ... nice round stars ... well done !

[[1ponders] (Paul)]

Nice shot Nettie.

[JD2439975 (Justin)]

That's off to a flying start Nettie & hand guided too.

So is hand guiding like a meditation?...Ah you must make yourself one with the star grasshopper.
I guess like meditation all's fine, until you need to pee.

[h0ughy (David)]

Hand Guiding? Nice work JJJ

[DavidU (Dave)]

Nice one jjjj ! A little tweek to boost the red maybe?

[Lester]

Very nice image. Excellent tracking.

All the best.

[David Fitz-Henr]

That looks really good Nettie - great detail and with only a quick levels and curves? It should be amazing once you do some sharpening and colour balance as well !!

[alan meehan (Alan)]

jjj nice shot there you have done really well

[Hagar (Doug)]

Very nice result JJJ and for only 50 min of 5 min shots and hand guided to boot. You have to be happy with this one.