Bodes Area With IFN

Cropped
Bodes Area With IFN
Cropped
Uncropped showing vignette.
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Bodes Area With IFN

This is from the 1 click bundle. It has been processed to showcase the IFN present around these two beautiful galaxies. The data is very disappointing because there is some very severe vignetting to the right hand side of the image meaning that I had to crop the image quite significantly. Even at the crop, the problem can still be seen at top and bottom right and is very evident in revision 2 which is the uncropped version.

I am not 100% sure what has caused the vignette but it was evident, to varying degrees in all subs and all filters. The HA subs showed a full circle anomaly. It is perhaps an internal reflection or possibly a flats calibration error. Whatever, it is extremely disappointing that the data from this new CMOS set up is, in fact, very poor.

I note that since I downloaded this data there have been another 15 data observations (10 hours) added to this bundle but I will not use credits to get this data as i have no confidence that it will be any better.
SPECIFICATIONS
Telescope ..........................................................................................................................................................................................................................
Telescope
Takahashi FSQ-106ED
Camera ..........................................................................................................................................................................................................................
Camera
QHY 600M
Location ..........................................................................................................................................................................................................................
Location
TL Spain
Date of observation ..........................................................................................................................................................................................................................
Date of observation
Feb 2023
Filters ..........................................................................................................................................................................................................................
Filters
HaLRGB
Processing ..........................................................................................................................................................................................................................
Processing
Pixinsight
Credits ..........................................................................................................................................................................................................................
Credits
Telescope Live / David Mackie
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Comments

Hello David, first of all, congratulations on the beautiful image, the IFN are very good to see. I'm sorry you had to crop the image because of the vignetting problem, we're working to fix this issue as soon as possible so we can take advantage of the full field of view of the tak. Thanks, Ernesto.