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Old 20-09-2009, 11:49 PM
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Originally Posted by TheDecepticon View Post
Ha ha! I tried to do 6357 last night also, with my QHY8 that arrived Thursday from Gama. Great service and expedient delivery!
I have had all the trouble in the world doing the flats until I contacted a more experienced imager. I had an ok colour to the nebula, but I had red rings around the edges of my image. I too thought that the transition from DSLR to QHY8 was gonna be easy, WRONG! What software are you using to capture & stack your files?
Exactly

I am using MaximDL 5, and DSS. I have worked out the colour thing, i had to set the X and Y offset when debayering. Any advice on flats would be good mate, mine are currently white, with a black splodge in the middle ...

Here is my first attempts ...
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