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Originally Posted by peeb61
Great images all round Steve...well done.
I like the Eagle, mate, stars nice and tight! How do you do it?
Paul
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Before I start I make sure my focus is pretty right ( as close to anyway ) and I make sure I have a good callibration for the SBIG so guiding is sub 1 pixel most of the time in CCDOPS usually around 0.1 to o.5 pixels. Occasional spikes over 1 pixel due to atmospheric turbulence are ok but if things start going wobbly I abort straight away coz I know I'll have spikes ... or nipples as Mike Siddonio likes to call them ... on the stars and I won't use the exposure anyway ... that doesn't happen too often thankfully.
Ofcourse this means that I am very hands on when imaging ... I am glued to the monitor to check things are going ok ... by the time I go to bed I have little numbers and graphs flashing across my eyes
To think I thought this hobby was about looking at the heavens not looking at a monitor
but once you're hooked on imaging you're hooked .... occasionally I step outside the observatory for a look at the sky just to remember what it looks like
Two nice and tidy shots. Sharp as. M16 really sticks out. 
It's wing span was much wider than our vehicle and when you are in the middle of nowhere you don't want to hit something like that ... it was just too full of roo to lift off in time and we held our breath 
