Thanks Allan, Marc, John, Peter and Mark for your comments.
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Originally Posted by PRejto
Paul, I sure wish you had a similar data (with same optics) set without the AO. It would be rather interesting to compare. Sure, I know seeing would be different between the two sets, but still probably interesting at some level. You've got to be happy with the detail here!
Peter
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Thanks Peter, I have noted just from a cursory point of view there is a tangible difference in detail level and sharpness obtained from using the AOX. Taming the bugger though can be a bit problematic if you are not aware of what you need to do. As you might know, ones standard guiding has to be good enough to obtain round stars prior to using one of these things. The AOX or AO of any description will not work well without the rest of the system being fine tuned. An experiment with and without would no doubt be interesting. I am not really afforded the time now on this object due to the need to have the camera repaired. Maybe some time in the future. And; yes I am pretty happy with the detail in this image. Not as good as a 20" image from Jay but certainly more detailed than many other images on the web.
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Originally Posted by gregbradley
Hats off to you Paul. That is simply phenomenally sharp detail.
Greg.
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Thanks Greg, these sort of results have me champing at the bit for some galaxies I have in my list of imaging targets. After this project I will be doing a couple of galaxies in a row and then I will be able to see what I can really get out of the system.
