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Originally Posted by montewilson
Yes - its been a while. I haven't got much to show at the moment. I am having a review of my techniques. I am not really happy with the results I am getting. I will pick your brains later about that topic later. There are issues with darks and exposure times that need to be resolved before I will get results comensurate with my equipment.
Sometimes I feel like an L Plating kid in a top fuel dragster with this equipment. While I can get from one end of the street to the other, I usually hit a few telegraphpoles on the way. I know it is possible, you seem to do 5 sec quarter miles every time haha.....
As for the 2x2 it was a bit of a departure from the norm for me but I was curious to see how much I could get of the object in the limited time I had.
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Nice analogy Monte.
Providing you’re still getting out there and getting some quality time with the instrument, that’s all that counts. Skills will not evolve with equipment sitting in a garage collecting dust instead of photons.
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Originally Posted by coldspace
Unreal image, Makes me love this hobby even more. Keep up the fantastic work, must be very satisfying after many hours of patience to end up with a final prize like that  .Well done and keep posting.
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Cheers Matt.
I get the biggest kick out of the planning and image processing. The latter in particular as this is where the image comes alive.
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Originally Posted by Ingo
Excellent image, I've been wanting to image this since the day I got into astrophotography. I don't have a cooled camera though, so no use! Great image!!!
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Thanks Ingo. What’s holding you back Follow your instincts to seek gratification. Don’t limit yourself because of your equipment. You only have to look around on this forum to see the great work done by others with uncooled modded/unmodded DSLRs.
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Originally Posted by Starkler
Amazing image that looks like a piece of astro concept art, if such a thing exists.
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Cheers Geoff.
Astro concept art. – sounds cool. I’ve always been fascinated by the artist presentations of a distant worlds in some of the astro mags. These guys have some incredible imagination.
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Originally Posted by cwjames
Hi Jase,
That image is really something (Great that is).
Not sure what process you use when collecting the data over multiple evenings to ensure your frames match up ?
Really great work !
Chris
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Thanks Chris. Frame alignment is done through a telescope pointing model and a plate solving process. This ensures the center of the image is perfectly aligned with arcsecond precision. Providing I don’t rotate the Tak CAA, I can shoot an object for as long as I need, night after night (weather permitting of course).
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Once again, thank you all for your supportive and kind responses. Much appreciated.
