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[Suzy]

Hi John, that is such a gorgeous image, wow, there is so much glorious detail!

I've popped it on our facebook page just now and I also did an informative write up to accompany it with. Thanks.

I love coming here and seeing gorgeous pics & when I see something unusual, I go off on a tangent finding information about them. Got to love astronomy- always something new to learn.

[dvj (John)]

Originally Posted by Suzy

Hi John, that is such a gorgeous image, wow, there is so much glorious detail!

I've popped it on our facebook page just now and I also did an informative write up to accompany it with. Thanks.

I love coming here and seeing gorgeous pics & when I see something unusual, I go off on a tangent finding information about them. Got to love astronomy- always something new to learn.

Hi Suzy, thank you, that's very nice of you to do that. Do you have a link to the facebook page?

jg

[marco (Marco Lorenzi)]

Excellent image John with exquisite details, as standard from you. But being this one a northern hemisphere I get you moved out your OTA from Coona, have you? If so it is a pity we will not see more of those fantastic Ha southern sky portrait, at least for a while..

Clear skies
Marco

[dvj (John)]

Originally Posted by marco

Excellent image John with exquisite details, as standard from you. But being this one a northern hemisphere I get you moved out your OTA from Coona, have you? If so it is a pity we will not see more of those fantastic Ha southern sky portrait, at least for a while..

Clear skies
Marco

Thanks Marco. Well no. Our satellite dish went down about 30 days ago, so I have no internet connection to the Oz remote observatory this month or maybe next until it gets resolved.

jg

[alpal]

Originally Posted by dvj

Thank you! At f/3.8, orthogonality of all the components help with this. I've replaced the original drawtube with an FLI Atlas digital focuser and the STL camera was factory shimmed a long time ago to improve the array flatness. This goes a long way for sharp stars across the field. What I thought originally was a bit of tilt, I'm actually experiencing a bit of differential flexure with my separate guidescope. Perfectly round stars when I use the internal STL guider. The problem is that the old STL guider is behind the filters! So, time for an upgrade.

Roland did it right on this one. Why the last scope sold for nearly $28K USD.

You've done well & it shows in the results.

[Ross G]

What an amazing photo John.

Incredible detail and so sharp!

Ross.

[dvj (John)]

Originally Posted by Ross G

What an amazing photo John.

Incredible detail and so sharp!

Ross.

Thank you Ross. It's a great scope. No sharpening or decon needed with the Honders. Well, at least for me, I have not found the need to apply that level of processing.

j

[sjastro]

Very sharp image John.

Steven

[Stevec35 (Steve)]

Very very nice John as usual with this instrument.

Cheers

Steve