Hi all,
Once again, life has conspired to keep me from imaging for a while. My Pathfinder was stolen from my driveway in the middle of the night, so dealing with the insurance and shopping for a new vehicle has occupied what little free time I have. Well, all is settled now and I got a nice clear night on Saturday. I wasted quite a bit of time taking an out of focus image of M1 (I inadvertently told Focusmax to focus on a very tight double star, the images aren't bad, but slightly out of focus .... live and learn). Anyway, this is 30 x 5 min of M81 luminance only, taken with my new AP 130 F8.35 riding on a G11. I've started adding some spikes on the brightest stars to hide some blooming artifacts inherent with the ST-10XME. I'm not sure if this is an approach I will continue to use, comments or suggestions would be appreciated.
cheers,
Jeff
Once again, life has conspired to keep me from imaging for a while. My Pathfinder was stolen from my driveway in the middle of the night, so dealing with the insurance and shopping for a new vehicle has occupied what little free time I have. Well, all is settled now and I got a nice clear night on Saturday. I wasted quite a bit of time taking an out of focus image of M1 (I inadvertently told Focusmax to focus on a very tight double star, the images aren't bad, but slightly out of focus .... live and learn). Anyway, this is 30 x 5 min of M81 luminance only, taken with my new AP 130 F8.35 riding on a G11. I've started adding some spikes on the brightest stars to hide some blooming artifacts inherent with the ST-10XME. I'm not sure if this is an approach I will continue to use, comments or suggestions would be appreciated.
cheers,
Jeff
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