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Originally Posted by Garyh
beautifully done again Greg!
You are doing soo sweetly on these little galaxies!
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Thanks Gary. That was the original intention behind getting the ML8300. To get enough image scale to image galaxies. I wouldn't mind a bit more image scale but F5 is a great F ratio to image at.
Greg.
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Originally Posted by strongmanmike
Sorry for not comenting earlier Greg.
This is great. I generally don't mind optical effects in images but in this case I have to say that star does destract the eye a little, not bad just annoyingly, it looks marvelous as an even tighter crop IMO
Excellent res too
Mike
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I've had a few bad reflections in some of those galaxy images. I like this crop. I also posted a crop earlier too that was similar. I desaturated the star as it was obviously in the blue filter. I have since received some spacers from Gerd for these Astronomik filters. I wonder if the blue filter was not seated flat as I just have some bent cardboard washers with black electrical tape holding them down. They are 1mm thick in a 3mm housing so they have 2mm of looseness unless pushed in. I think they are slightly loose but when imaging the angle of the scope no doubt seats them back a bit in the housing - perhaps not! I'll find out next time I use them.
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Originally Posted by Ric
Avery nice image Greg, I love it's unusual shape.
Cheers
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Originally Posted by spearo
very nice image indeed
frank
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Thanks Frank. I am happy with the BRC/FLI ML8300 combo. I'll be testing out the TEC/ML8300 combo next on galaxies. Not sure what I'll see as both scopes are the same focal length but the BRC is F5 and the TEC is F7. I am expecting the TEC to be sharper but may take a little longer to get there.
Greg.
