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Old 04-11-2013, 03:19 PM
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Trapezium

Not wanting to waste the last few minutes of darkness...I sqeeeezed this in, just before sun up this morning

Normally the last hour of darkness the seeing steadies right out here...but in this case I couldn't believe how quickly the seeing deteriorated It was quite ok when I finished the main imaging session (another galaxy ) but by the time I slewed over to the Hunter it had fuzzed up noticably, so I decided to do it in narrowband to maybe save some resolution? While the seeing for the Ha was very average, for the SII it was crap and finally by the time I got to the OIII man! the focus star looked like a pom pom and it all happened in the space of a few minutes ....it was like something was wrong ...about as bad as the worst seeing I saw in Newcastle ...oh well just for fun I threw it together anyway because it was such a simple processing job. At least I could reveal all six main stars but I will be able to do much better under the normal seeing conditions I get here

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Old 04-11-2013, 04:42 PM
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Old 04-11-2013, 05:35 PM
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Those stars are very clearly resolved.

Perhaps a front or winds were moving in. I know what you mean about bad seeing. A few times I was wondering why the CDK17 would not focus until I realised it was seeing, getting slightly better at the same focus point then worse. Not worth imaging when it gets like that.

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Mike your bad seeing must be the same as my best day at Warwick. Nice round stars, but if that was bad how good could it be with better seeing, some fast exposures and Registax type processing.

Renato threw this idea past me at the last Astrofest and you have done what I was trying to do this week (if it wasn't for those pesky clouds). High res cores of bright deep sky objects.

Are well maybe next fortnight when I'm back at the farm.

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Those stars are very clearly resolved.

Perhaps a front or winds were moving in. I know what you mean about bad seeing. A few times I was wondering why the CDK17 would not focus until I realised it was seeing, getting slightly better at the same focus point then worse. Not worth imaging when it gets like that.

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Mike your bad seeing must be the same as my best day at Warwick. Nice round stars, but if that was bad how good could it be with better seeing, some fast exposures and Registax type processing.

Renato threw this idea past me at the last Astrofest and you have done what I was trying to do this week (if it wasn't for those pesky clouds). High res cores of bright deep sky objects.

Are well maybe next fortnight when I'm back at the farm.

Justin
Just a fun little nothing images really, so much more could be done on this...and maybe I will ...if, that is, I can be dragged away from imaging galaxies

You are right Justin and that's kinda what I did here 25 X 5sec with each filter ...the seeing was just too bad, luckily the Ha was passable or I wouldn't have split all 6 stars I don't recon.

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Have'in a wee Buuurbon are we Fred

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That would be Guiness BTW, punk, otherwise you are correct.

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Green, I love green...and Guinness too, to be sure
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Nice Trap, Mike
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Cheers Rick, one to do again sometime..properly

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