Hi,
Melbourne has been cloudy, to say the least, but last night I went out around 8pm and it was clear. I set up very quickly, aligned terribly and the seeing was pretty average, but I wanted to do my first run with the camera
I used sharpcap, and was able to get a feel for the initial workflow. My question here is, what sort of gain is best at this stage, i.e. capture before processing? I was imaging moon, jupiter and saturn, using the default auto-capture in sharpcap. I played around with gain and contrast, and was struck by the results at low gain (Saturn). The clarity was excellent compared to others at higher gain, but the brightness (luminosity?) was much lower. So, a dimmer image but sharp.
When using the live view and histogram, is it better to set gain and contrast such that the image here is as good as possible, or is it better to run at lower gain and add more information in processing? (by add more information I mean stack more images)
Thanks
Stephen