Hi All,
My STL11K started giving me blooms on bright stars when using the FSQ at F5 so I adjusted it as per SBIG's instructions and I spent last night running some alignment and PEM chores before testing for blooms with M45. I only had three or so hours to shoot hence I consider this one a quick and dirty (Q&D)
. Not only are the blooms gone, the stars are smaller and the halos less pronounced, but all this with minimum loss of gain. Still impressed with how deep I can go in such a short time at F5. There are a couple of mag 17 galaxies and asteroids in the image.
Image data is on my website:
http://web.tampabay.rr.com/jsuro/clusters/M45.htm
It's all starting to click now.
Best,
Jose Suro
Tierra Verde, Florida
My STL11K started giving me blooms on bright stars when using the FSQ at F5 so I adjusted it as per SBIG's instructions and I spent last night running some alignment and PEM chores before testing for blooms with M45. I only had three or so hours to shoot hence I consider this one a quick and dirty (Q&D)
. Not only are the blooms gone, the stars are smaller and the halos less pronounced, but all this with minimum loss of gain. Still impressed with how deep I can go in such a short time at F5. There are a couple of mag 17 galaxies and asteroids in the image.Image data is on my website:
http://web.tampabay.rr.com/jsuro/clusters/M45.htm
It's all starting to click now
.Best,
Jose Suro
Tierra Verde, Florida
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