John, congratulations to the new scope, it seems to do very well.
As for the brightness of the image my favourite would be the middle between
the two versions.

Stefan

"John N. Gretchen III" schrieb im Newsbeitrag
m...
I re-stacked this and that helped the field rotation, also brightened it
up some....

John N. Gretchen III wrote:
first light, needs a collimation tweak.....
5x900 seconds
Intes-Micro M73 (7" F3 custom astrograph)
Celestron CI-700 Mount w/Gemini
reduced 50%

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