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Yes i would for sure, it would only be a travel rig i think for the occasional dark sky site visit. i have seen people use there cooled cmos with dslr lens so may look into that also

@Ouroboros Hi, thnak you. Yes it was def a fiddle to process this just how i wanted it, I do like to stay on the side of "natural colouring" if i can when processing. I think im building up a good eye now for what i think is enough and to much. MY OSC is fantastic, coupled with the L-po or Enhanced its really keeping the urge for a mono purchase at bay Yes that right i used a 0.8x flattener which gave me a FL of 444 mm, this is my limit as this isnt cropped at all. I cant fit the heart nebula in i dont think which is a shame as that was going to be next, going to pick up a cheap dslr again i think for some wider field shots with my 300mm lens at some point .

Thank you Adam

Thank you Mark, much appreciated

To image or observe @merlin100 ? I'm quite fortunate, didnt realise before but at this time of year it rises right in front of me in the back garden! Couldnt image it all night!

It certainly is, def one of the harder ones I've had to process lately. Mnay thanks for the kind coment

Agreed! Its magical, its often a pinch yourself moment in this hobby. Many thanks for the kind words

Thank you Mark very much appreciated, clear skies

First time at this amazing target! Actually found this one of my hardest yet to process. 3.5 hours intergration, stacked and processed in P.i Altair 80ED-R Altair 50 mm guide scope Asi294mc pro Asi 120 mm-s HEQ5 pro Optolong L-Pro Clear skies all

Great image well done, congrats on joining the magical hobby

lovely image, love the way the crescent is just out there all alone great job

My first crack at a "Quassi hubble palette" look on an earlier posted Cygnus wall, A fair few blemishes but will probably go back to this in the winter months and reprocess. was fun and frustrating process for my first time doing these colours. All equipment posted in my previous post.

Thank you Vlaiv, it does make sense and you have been more then helpful so greatly appreciated. have a good week and clear skies

I think my 11am brain has taken in waaaay to much info already today but i really appreciate the info and will def to continue to read over this. one last thing, you pointed out that one image i posted was double the zoom the other was, why are my final stacked images not 1:1 they tend to be 1:5 or more, i dont understand what this is doing or telling me, seems the lower the ratio the better starnet works...

EXCELLENT! you have def pointed out something ive not taken into consideration, so i just ran star net on both, and the "more zoomed" image def keeps more stars then the lesser so thats great news and im guessing i can figure that out from here... question. i use pixinsight to pre process and i add the drizzle files into the image intergration stage, im guessing DSS does this for you if the box (x2 drizzle) is ticked?

thank you, this may take me a couple of reads but appreciate the info

@vlaiv both stacked quickly in DSS using same settings except the one on the left is drizzle x2 and the right no drizzle. i think there identical so may rule this out....

Thanks Ken, i guess now im getting a lot more comfortable with my set up and astro as a whole im starting to see things that i didnt used to know were there if that makes sense. yes mate im using the asi 294 mc pro cooled cam OSC

there cracking mounts for the price when tuned for sure! i love mine. def would like some more advise on this if possible that would be very helpful, i think i may have said under instead of over sorry, plus you would need to add my reducer into that equation which is 0.8x bringing the F/L to 444 when i ran psf script in pixinsight i cant remember exactly what my FWHM was but it seemed a little high which made me feel my stars were slightly fat, im just running a new stack now without drizzle

apologies i should have stated, yes in Arc seconds. i have belt modded my mount and also tuned with new bearings etc a couple weeks ago. I believe i am slightly under sampled depending on the seeing in a given evening, asi 294mc pro and the 80ED-R on astro tools suggests this? ive usually used drizzle due to dithering and killing some walking noise. maybe ill tryu run the stack again without drizzle and see the outcome thats a fair comment and observation, i genuinely believed it was due to how potent the stars were and it just cant ris then, again ill try a stack with same data without drizzle. and yes its 2x drizzle ive been using

Makes sense! im going to try 3 mins or less, M31 is my next target so want to keep lower EP time as i dont want to blow the core anyway. yes that star is particularly blue and big i must admit! ill check some of my last targets and see if im getting the same thing.

I guess in a way thats guiding that evening was between 0.48 and 0.65 for my HEQ5 pro id consider that good so im ruling that out, the focus issue is a pain as with the mask ive never really had too much issue, maybe i do need an auto focusser after all any reason why not use drizzle? ive always seen good results with this? any idea why starnet wont remove all stars? seems to be only with the big bright blue ones such as the example ive shown?

Yea im going to go to maybe 180 secs and see whats thats like for my next image, shame because it handles 240 really nicely bar this issue. I have often read that less exposure on the cooled cams is better which always stumped me because there cooled you would think longer?!

Thank you, yes the Mask is mayched for the scope, they were baught together from Altair. Its not the original its the new one the 80ED-R that you posted a link too. You think that blue hue is to do with that then? Its more the size of the of the stars, I do think there a little bloated .

For more info this is the final stacked image with just DBE carried out and an STF nothing else. star in question is top left