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Thanks Andrew, second image is the same as the first, just lower res for slow connections. Thanks Des, I was pleasantly surprised with this result, last of the season unfortunately.

Looks like you could swim in it. Big improvement

Very nice Olly. I also use pretty much the same technique with the stars. I remove them with Starnet then blend the original with the starless in blend mode lighten. I then paste the this version over the original adjusting the opacity to taste. Works well with diffraction spikes too.

Hi all, I can't believe i even got an image given the conditions for rgb imaging. No astro dark, quite a low target and an average 70% moon over the two nights. I just recently set about collimating the Epsilon and i think the increased sharpness from decent collimation shows. It's still off in the upper corners so more tweaking required. I wonder is it tilt i'm looking at or spacing. So this is 5 hrs gathered over the last two nights 100*180 second subs with the Asi2600mc through a Takahashi Epsilon 130 Mounted on an AZEQ6 Sequence generator pro for the image acquisition. Processed in APP, PI, and PS Richard. New Original

This is a gorgeous image. I love the muted tones as others have also said.

Beauty Carole 1st or 2nd for me, i think 1st by a hair.

That's lovely, very natural looking. Great depth to the image.

Very nice indeed, so many Galaxies.

That's a beauty John

Superb image Alex. So much to see.

You've done very well given the conditions. Lovely colour

No amp glow with Asi 071, Asi 533 and Asi2600. Same with Qhy versions.

Lovely image John

Looks great, pity about the frames lost to the branches. There's always some obstacle to overcome with this hobby🤪

😁 lucky you have the space. Collimation on these fast scopes needs to be bang on but by the sounds of it you have other issues to deal with. In that thread they spoke about getting the focuser aligned with the secondary first and then go from there. I thought i had problems trying to get my head around the Epsilon's instructions. It's like they used a thesaurus on every word to translate it🤣

Nice one Stu👍

Just had a read of that thread and you're right scary stuff indeed. Glad i went with the Tak. I don't mind a bit of tweaking but that's nuts. Are you making any progress with yours?

Yes that looks very similar to what i had. It's a strange one as the 071 has no such issues with refractors.

Thanks Roger. Thanks Dave. I did look at the Sharpstar, very interesting scope. I have to admit that there's some joy to be had in getting a fast newt singing, although you would have thought shiny screws in the tube would be a pretty obvious design flaw. Yes, that is interesting. I spent quite a lot of energy trying to figure out the cause. Would you have some examples to share?

Thanks Adam. It's not ideally positioned and there are a lot of subs taken before and after astro dark but it's nice and bright. I realise now i wasn't clear, the first crop was taken two years ago with the 071 which created the suction cups. Second one is with the 2600.

Hi all. This is a first light image with my newly acquired Epsilon 130d. Some of you will know that i owned one of these and decided to sell it, i was warned i'd regret it and i did, so when this came up second hand but only used in a display i decided to go for it. One of the main reasons i sold it was because i had these large suction cups behind the stars, see below. This is 9hrs in 180 second subs with my Asi 2600mc Mounted on an AzEq6 Captured using Sgpro, Stacked in APP, Processed in APP, PI, and PS. No Calibration frames yet. It's not the prettiest but there's lots going on the background so worth a zoom around. Stars have some issues, possibly collimation or spacing. Richard.

Beautiful Crescent and Soap bubble is so well defined.

As an aside, i'm surprised you found the 163 noisy. I thought the data on my 1600 was very clean. What bugged me were the halos around bright stars with certain optics.

That's a beauty. Lovely colour and processed very gently.

Will keep that in mind for future projects, thanks. Thanks. Dark skies really help bring out the dust and to be honest when data is good you don't need to do much in the way of processing. I'm lucky to the East and North East my skies are very dark, unfortunately everywhere else is polluted by street lights.