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Well that was quite unexpected 19 years after the first RCX ACF's were introduced then shortly later the regular LX200s changed to ACF as well. The lack of dedicated reducer was one of the reason s I never bought an ACF even though the AstroPhysics 0.67x was found to work well with them. Lee

Just found this small amount of data that I hadn't processed from 27 Feb 2022 of the Moneky Head Nebula NGC 2174 Exposure: 15 x 5 mins Camera: ZWO ASI533MC @ Gain100 -15C Filter: Altair Triband. Scope: Meade Series 5000 127mm F7.5 Triplet Apo. Mount: EQ8Pro. Guided, Captured, Stacked, DDP stretch, Flatten Backgrond in MaximDL 5, Starnett++, Photoshop 2023, Graxpert Ai, Topaz NR No Darks or Flats. Location: Kent, UK. Bortle 6

I have been slowly but surely adding data to my IC410 Tadpole Nebula image when the weather allowed, this 6 hours of data taken over 5 nights from the last 2 weeks. Exposure: 120 x 3 mins Camera: Player One Uranus C Pro @ Gain 210 & -15C Filter: Optolong L Enhance dual narrowband. Scope: Meade Series 5000 127mm F7.5 Triplet Apo. Mount: EQ8Pro. Guided, Captured, Stacked, DDP stretch, Flatten Backgrond in MaximDL 5, Starnett++, Photoshop 2023. No Darks or Flats. Location: Kent, UK. Bortle 6

Thanks Olly, I really need to grab some more data next summer on this, its always so low for me and the way I have my scopes mounted side by side I can only get after its crossed the meridian as then Meade is then higher than the other scopes, even then I can only get 1 hour before next doors shed starts cutting the aperture 😞 Also being so low really blurs the detail and bloats the stars, so had to use all my tricks to get something useable, Blur Exterminator would probably do it easier but I dont use Pix insight . Yes the Meade is a great scope, wonderfully sharp and great for the money on the used market, like your TEC 140 it has a tiny bit of CA fringing, but 1 click of Noels remove purple fringing cures that. If I ever upgraded it would be for something with around 1200mm FL but that would be huge in comparison. I see Sharpstar have recently released the Askar 185 app with 1295mm FL, looks a bit of a beast but at 5 grand it would pay for 5 of my scopes 😛 Lee

Just been reprocessing some old data with my latest workflow. Here is M20 the Trifid Nebula from June 2021. Only 15 X 3 min so lot of room to improve if I ever get more data on it. Camera: ZWO ASI533MC pro @ Gain 100 - 15C. Filter: Baader Lum. Scope: Meade Series 5000 127mm F7.5 Triplet refractor. Mount: EQ8 Pro. Location: Kent UK, Bortle 6 Guided, Captured, Stacked, Streched, Flatten Background in MaximDL, Processed in Photoshop, Starnett++2 for Mac M1.

super image Olly, I see what you mean about the colour, at first glance maybe a little too much but its subjective. I just had similar thoughts about the M20 im about to post, each time I go back to it I keep thinking it needs more saturation, but now im thinking maybe I have gone too far. At first glance

yes I like that, or if you want to leave the background lighter you could just do a local adjustment to the dark rift in the middle. Didnt mean to criticise it, its a lovely image, Lee

That's different, not seen a Pacman image with the surrounding dust before, very nice. For me it would be even better if the black point was moved over a bit or selectively darken the rift within the Pacman a bit to give it more contrast. Lee

I like it

nice detail and colours

or about 11cm on this 43" monitor 😛

Managed to get 2nd light with my new camera last night unfortiunatly only got 1 hour of data before the clouds returned, should have started earlier. IC410 Tadpole nebula, the smaller pixels of my new camera allowed me to get my highest resolution image of the tadpoles to date, very impressed with this camera, hopefully I can add a few hours more data to this target to improve it further. Exposure: 20 x 3 mins Camera: Player One Uranus C Pro @ Gain 100 & -15C Filter: Optolong L Enhance dual narrowband. Scope: Meade Series 5000 127mm F7.5 Triplet Apo. Mount: EQ8Pro. Guided, Captured, Stacked, DDP stretch, Flatten Backgrond in MaximDL 5, Starnett++, Photoshop 2023. No Darks or Flats. Location: Kent, UK. Bortle 6

First light for my new camera on Thursday night achieved 2 sets of data this was the 2nd The Heart and Soul IC1805 and IC1848. Exposure: 72 X 90 secs Camera: Player One Uranus C Pro @ Gain 210 Lens: Samyang 135mm F2 working at F2.4 Filter: Optolong L Enhance stacked with Baader UV/IR. Mount: EQ8 Pro. Guided, Captured, Stacked, DDP stretch, Flatten Backgrond in MaximDL 5, Starnett++, Noise Xterminator, Photoshop 2023. No Darks or Flats. Location: Kent, UK. Bortle 6

I really like that Emil, I normally find the California a boring object but the high resolution has picked up so much detail. Mono still has the edge in terms of smoothness and final detail . Lee

The askar 180 is a very small lens / scope, 180 is the focal lenght not the aperture, its only 40mm aperure. they cant seam to decide if its a lens or scooe in the marketing though i took that photo above before i mounted it, thats why you cant see it lol it just fits in one of the finder brackets