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Originally Posted by avandonk
Even when things are not perfect you actually learn what the limitations of yourself and your equipment is.
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I agree, when I was sitting out there and watching the raw rubbish appearing on my screen and thinking, what am I gunna do with
that... I was a little depressed but I just kept going by focusing (pardon the pun) on the whole experience - it's a great hobby (mostly)
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I have bits of ply I can stick up to stop the Moon from illuminating my NB endowed member and getting down the optical tube to scatter.
Bert
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I do have the 200mm long tube extension but particularly on the western side of the meridian I could see the light of the moon reaching right down into the tube past the extension - can't have been good
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Originally Posted by SkyViking
That's a great image Mike, I can't even imagine what it would have looked like if you'd had perfect conditions...
I like the different crops, and the distant nebula has a very interesting texture!
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Cheers Rolf, we take what we can get sometimes
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Originally Posted by Peter.M
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Doh!
Eat my Shorts
Mike
Goodbye sun, hello imaging in the daytime.
.. just avoid bright moon and cloud when you want the colour data 
