New Toy - Orion Starshhot Pro - First Light

[dcalleja]

Hi All
I had my first foray last night with the new SSPRO cam. I wanted to "move up" from the DSI's to a cooled, large format cam without paying too much.

An interesting experience 1st time out. Everything is bigger, heavier and takes longer. I managed to get M17 with 5x300sec RAW subs on the ED80.

I've had to put it up on my site as the files are too big http://www.users.bigpond.net.au/calleja/. and I've included an original scale version for comparison.

A big minus that I hadn't considered was processing. Each file is 36Mb and my dual core with 2GB of RAM is very very slow. Capture is OK though.

Take a look and tell me what you think. Its always fun to get out with a new toy!!

I've updated the site with an image of M8 - similar specs to the Swan.

[leon]

Well Dan there is nothing wrong with that one, very nice capture with your first attempt of a new device.

It seems to have a very rich, deep colour about it and has plenty of depth, nice going.

Leon

[madwayne]

Good job Dan and good choice of camera, even if I do say so myself. I've had mine for 3 or 4 weeks now and it performs flawlessly.

The files sure do come down big but I have had little if any lag on my laptop stacking with Maxim and I have been using between 6 and 15 frames to date. My laptop is certainly not dual core either. What software are you running for your capture and stacking?

[dcalleja]

Thanks Leon
The SSPro seems to capture the reds (HA) better than the DSI which always seemed a little pastel-like



Wayne
I'm using the nobbled version of Maxim that it comes with, though I'm waiting to get the new driver for Nebulosity to see if that works any better.