M86 raw

Just to keep the camera running after I went to bed, I set it up to image the M86 neighborhood. Apparently that is the intersection of all the transcontinental airline flights, or maybe satellite transits, at that time of night, as numerous subframes had a nice streak through the middle. I de-selected most of those streaky ones, but still ended up with 17-10 minute frames I combined here. No processing besides just a stretch of the FIT into photoshop. I will get to the other tweaking later. Yes, there might be some issues with the flat and focus, but this was taken with the 80mm scope that still has the focuser issue, and was before I received the Bahtinov focusing mask. (I haven't used that one yet - I didn't realize that such a tiny piece of equipment like that could cause so much snow.)

http://www.fortlewis.edu/observatory/image_detail.asp?ID=259

I posted the FIT in our data directory if anyone wants to play with it. If you do, let us see. Otherwise, I will see what I come up with and wait for RGB...

Charlie