The Sunflower galaxy, M63. 6.8 Hr from B4

[oak sigil]

Dealing with some banding noise, maybe I forgot to dither when capturing.
ONTC808, HEQ5 Pro, Risingcam IMX 571 OSC with IRUV-cut filter, also a 2x barlow.

[feral wyvern]

Lovely

Colors are quite nice

[oak sigil]

Thx, yes, dark skies help 🙂 No Narrowband filters used.

[feral wyvern]

I need to find a solid bortle 4 area

[oak sigil]

Yeah, I am so fortunate to live in one 🙂

[waxen shoal]

What pixel scale and F ratio?

[oak sigil]

F4 native but the 2x Barlow should make that f8. Pixel scale native 1 arcsec but with barlow .5.

[waxen shoal]

Ok!

[balmy mica]

what focal length? Looks sick!

[oak sigil]

🙏🏻
800 native and 2x Barlow makes that 2 times more zoomed in.

[bright parcel]

@olive notch

[olive notch]

yes

[balmy mica]

I might actually try that too

[waxen shoal]

Me too

[balmy mica]

I have no guiding tho XD

[waxen shoal]

lol, same for me 😅 I will have soon tho

[balmy mica]

I'm still waiting to get a coma corrector first xD

[waxen shoal]

What the hell 😂

[balmy mica]

Imaging at f/4 without a coma corrector is horrible

[waxen shoal]

I can relate to that (mine is f/5)

[balmy mica]

But you have a smaller sensor xD

[waxen shoal]

Yeah, now, but some time ago, I had apsc

[balmy mica]

Oh ok. Yea coma is horrible.

[waxen shoal]

https://discordapp.com/channels/794642864218439681/794655174014140416/1130626796690346077

[waxen shoal]

Look at this

Pretty horrible

[balmy mica]

coma isn't something I'm very proud of xD

[waxen shoal]

That... hurts

[balmy mica]

but hey the middle is nice and sharp!

[waxen shoal]

Yeah, but only the middle!

[olive notch]

@bright parcel why did you ping me

[oak sigil]

Barlow reduces the coma error because you zoom in to the center of the image.

[balmy mica]

It does yea.

[oak sigil]

And, if you have a friend that uses BXT you can make coma go away. 😁