This hasn't turned out as well as I expected and the processing is dubious but will have to wait a week or two to finish off now the moon is rearing itself again.
Taken last night with the usual candidates - Sky90 @ F/4.5 with SXV-H9 camera guided with ED80 and Atik16IC
40 x 2min exposures of luminance data with Baader Neodymium filter.
(http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3062/3088951937_07b5fa5c13_b.jpg)
Looks not too bad Robert - a good start... John
That's looking really good Robert. Excellent detial and framed very nicely.
It would look fantastic with some added colour!
Mark
Robert, that is a beautiful image!!!! So smoooooooooooth
Robert, I have been looking at your images & the stars are so nice & tight, never bloated, lke mine, is that the Tak? Or your wonderful focusing? Or both?
A guess a combination of a quality scope plus a motorised focusser controlled by FocusMax :angel:
Fay, I put it down to a combination of the optics and automated focusing. The FocusMax program does a much better job than I could even with the latest focusing masks, the stars are noticably tighternow. Obviously it's not 'hard core' astronomy but I was spending too much time focusing before and between filter changes, it now takes 10-15 seconds so I can put that extra time into capturing data.