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Old 06-12-2008, 09:53 AM
TrevorW
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Originally Posted by Bassnut View Post
If you dont cool the cam, just use ICNR, so Darks will track the image temp. Imaging sessions will take twice as long, but I saw an M42 pic Mike Salway did this way, and it looked very low noise.
I did a series of 35 2min exposures of M45 last night between 9:00 and 10:30 pm attached is the first exposure and the last. (temp varied from around 18-15C) INCR was off but it may be the way to go on warmer nights, I might give that a try tonight to see how much difference it makes.

I don't know if two minutes is too long for this object but even after applying lights and darks I can't get a good image with about 1 hrs worth of exposure.

(the first image was compressed to 8 in PS7 whereas the second I had to set as 4 to get under the size for posting both where saved at 800 x 532)

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