Andy Wray avatar
I'm trying to get my telescope set up so that it has good collimation and back focus.  I was wondering if anyone could give me tips based on the images below.  Whilst capturing this object I had a near full-moon on the first night, clouds on the next four nights, moved from a traditional guide cam setup to an off-axis guider on the second night,  had a slightly loose imaging train on the third night which would have affected my backfocus and tilt and then tightened and re-collimated on the fourth night.  Not ideal, I know, but I've tried to compensate by using a weighting in PI based on 70% PSF SNR Weight, 15% Eccentricity and 15% FWHM.  Oh, I also used subframeselector to throw away 15% of the subs based on limits on those three parameters too.

The following one is a mosaic from the abberation inspector in PI on that target:


and here is the full image:



M106 after 5 hrs integration
Stuart Taylor avatar
He's back in the saddle! Excellent! smile