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Originally Posted by strongmanmike
That's a really great and feature packed M83 Pete, congratulations  Perhaps pushed a tad hard (I'm good at that too  ) so reducing the whole-image sharpening might be worth a look? Barlowing a nice refractor is a cool way of getting extra FL, albeit slower. I always meant to give it a try with my AP Starfire but never got around to it.
How are you finding the Morovian BTW, I hear they are pretty good cameras, did you get that from Steve Massey?
Mike |
Hi Mike,
Thanks for your words of advice. Yes, maybe I did push it a bit too hard. I've noticed different looks on different web browsers. On IE Explorer the image opens up to the size of the monitor (which might depend on how the browser is set up). Of course, if the screen is too large the image looks lousy! Just clarify for me if your comment about sharpening was when looking at it 1700x1438 pixels?
I did buy the camera from Steve. It is a nice camera and I think it cools quite well. The most frustrating thing about the camera is the lack of a native Sky X driver. The ASCOM driver does work to a point, but isn't very reliable. There is nothing nice about a freeze on downloading a 7 min subframe and needing to shut down the camera, re-cool, etc. Moravian promised a driver a year ago but they keep delaying! I do have some hope because Gaston (of ONAG) has become the dealer for Moravian in the USA. With so many people there using TSX I predict more heat if Moravian doesn't come to the party soon. At least I live in some hope!
Peter