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Thread: Blue Snow Ball last night
- 08-07-2018, 06:29 PM #1
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Blue Snow Ball last night
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- 08-08-2018, 07:06 AM #2
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Re: Blue Snow Ball last night
Good detail in nebula. Congratulations
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- 08-08-2018, 07:56 AM #3
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Re: Blue Snow Ball last night
Very nice thanks for sharing
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- 08-20-2018, 12:37 PM #4
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Re: Blue Snow Ball last night
super shot thanks
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- 08-20-2018, 01:30 PM #5
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Re: Blue Snow Ball last night
This is really a nice image.
I was just reading last night in "Annals of the Deep sky" about this planetary gem in Andromeda, NGC7662.
You have captured some nice detail and color with this fine work.
Thank you.Mark
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- 08-20-2018, 02:17 PM #6
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Re: Blue Snow Ball last night
That's impressive for such a small object.
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- 10-11-2018, 04:21 AM #7
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Just out of curiosity, as I'm totally unfamiliar with this: would the image have improved significantly without the 6.3 FR on?
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- 10-11-2018, 04:48 AM #8
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Re: Blue Snow Ball last night
Nice image! One of my favorite planetaries!
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- 10-11-2018, 06:13 AM #9
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Re: Blue Snow Ball last night
Great Image.
Thank you for sharing.
Clear skies.Peter.
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- 10-11-2018, 09:50 AM #10
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Re: Blue Snow Ball last night
The answer is probably a clear, straightforward, "Depends. . .".
Originally Posted by hyperhans 
Without the focal reducer the image scale would be larger (the nebula would appear to be bigger). I think many people would prefer that but some may not. The larger FOV means that the photo can be framed differently and that gives artistic opportunities which would not be available with a smaller FOV. Which is better is a matter of taste.
Depending on atmospheric conditions, with the focal reducer it is possible that there was some under-sampling and that if the guiding were superb and focus were perfect it is possible that leaving off the focal reducer might have resulted in more detail. For most of us with our typical gear it is unlikely that taking away the focal reducer would have resulted in more detail because our tracking just isn't amazing and our atmospheric conditions are not amazing.
So maybe it'd have been better without the focal reducer, but it could have actually been worse. I suspect he got it about as good as can be done - and that was pretty good indeed!
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