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In the odd moments of having clear skies this past month I have carried on tinkering with the WO FLT 110 apo refractor/ WO 0.8x Flat III reducer flattener (unmatched) combination. Having gone down a bit of a rabbit hole with a Tilt adapter - completely unnecessary as it turned out - the two key impr...

Interesting Dave, I enjoyed scanning back to see the evolution there. It is certainly true that every time you change setup it brings new problems and new learning. Part of the reason that I have gone with deep sky narrowfield views of objects thus far is that in some ways it is easier - particularl...

Congratulations - a flying start with the moon! With a field of a degree or so you might also try your set up on some of the brighter and more compact deep sky objects -- thinking M42, M57, M27 and some of the globular clusters like M3 and M13 that are becoming higher in the sky now? i.e while moon ...

Hi Menno. Nice object and image. So it is an S? meaning unknown type but - is it just me - but does it also seem be shaped rather like a capital letter S?
Tim

Thanks Dave --- I was actually quite pleased to see an improvement with drizzling. I have known about in theory for some time but since with Newts I normally oversample haven't really had a chance to use it but it was nice to see how it did indeed work and resolve small stars from the halos of large...

Thanks Robin, Can't argue with your comment about refractors. I think that I just like the diffraction spike effect, colour faithfulness and low cost per photon of Newts. Thanks for your comment on image quality. It was exactly the blooming that I was mainly seeking feedback on. I like the look of t...

Given that the above was undersampled (1.55 arc sec pixel relative to seeing which must have been around 2.5 arcsec or less) and also dithered (using SharpCaps non guided dither) the data provided an opportunity to compare Debayering with CFA x1 and CFA x2 drizzling. It is always nice to see that th...

Hi Robin, Just to comment that I have been using this and it seems quite useful. The contour markings are a bit hard to see (yellow perhaps rather than red?) Wonder whether the analysis might (depending on exposure length) sometimes be better applied to integrations of a few aligned frames rather th...

That looks a fascinating little engineering project. Thanks for sharing it. I'd never heard of Arduino before but the link provided a good introduction. With that and a 3D printer the world of designing and controlling things via software looks like it's open to the hobbyist. Above my head though --...

Recently - in the very few hours of clear sky available - I have been attempting to analyse and improve the performance of my old William Optics 110 mm tmb F 7.0 apo refractor in combination with a Flat6A III 0.8X reducer flattener. Most of my experience has been with Newtonian reflectors and I am l...