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M71 - higher res with good seeing!, lowenthalm
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M71 - higher res with good seeing!

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I have taken some time at full moon to experiment with exposures, gain and improving focus. I collected a few test images of M71 from home under good seeing at bin 1x1. Despite a little interference from the moon just rising, I ended up getting some pretty nice crisp images, so I stacked a couple of compatible images and here is the result. As an additional test, I fixed the moon gradient and did all the other processing with FitsWork4.

This image is much better than my previous bin 2x2 image I posted that was taken at a dark sky near Moro.

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M71 - higher res with good seeing!, lowenthalm

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