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rosette WO 102mm F56 ZWO ASI 071 Musk Sat


rosette WO 102mm F56 ZWO ASI 071 Musk Sat

A friend insisted that my first image of the Rosette taken with the RASA 11" + QHY 600 P camera, was the result of me starting the imaging before the Byers was fully tracking. Nonsense! The Byers was fully tracking, the composition and placement of the Nebula was not an accident...unguided, the Byers II was tracking @ better than .2 of a pixel for 490 & 600 second exposures. So I've posted another copy of the Rosette image that I followed up with (same session) but taken with my William Optics 102mm refractor @ f5.9 and the ZWO 071 camera - this is a much slower system than the RASA setup. The difference between the speed of the telescope OTA's alone is a factor of 2.2/5.9 ... and the cameras are significantly different as well...the 600 QE is "up to 90%" back illuminated with amp glow suppression...while the ZWO older tech is ~ 80%. I've high lite greened the streaks in the image this time...although the tails aren't as long as they are in the image taken with the RASA, they're still present in the image....they start with a star like point and have a shorter tail. All the "background" stars are pretty sharp, along with the Nebula itself...so if this is the result of the mount moving somehow, and NOT Starlink...tell me how? The RASA is so fast...and so fast enough...that any movement of the mount itself would have been recorded across the whole image. So unless these streaks are the result of some weird unknown "meteor showers" event...someone please explain to me what they could be other than Elon Musk garbage flying thru space?






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