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Getting started on the Heart Nebula and got far enough to at least post this. Needs lots of work but has a overall pleasing look.

AG )ptics 12.5 Newt
Apogee U16

200 Images 20 hours or so of time.

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Comment by Conor on January 5, 2013 at 1:44pm
Just had to sign in and say this is a beauty! Nice work man, really.

So far as those oblong stars go, that looks more like focuser sag/pinching to me, as opposed to collimation.
Comment by Dave Lane on January 5, 2013 at 7:07am

Oh and thanks Fred! It is a Hubble palette narrowband image.

Comment by Dave Lane on January 5, 2013 at 7:05am

Mark, Collimation issues on a lot of the first frames. I redid this with some corrections and it turned out much nicer. But yeah that was a problem I had to correct.

Comment by Mark Roberts on January 4, 2013 at 7:27pm

Looking pretty nice Dave.
Was wondering though why stars look elongated on the left side of the image as well as double diff spikes on bright stars, while the right side stars look pinpoint?

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