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Originally Posted by Andy01
I feel sick and stupid - lost the lot from last night's amazing dark sky imaging session ...and it was freezing, but the skies were so clear!
Somehow I forgot to change back from binx3 test mode to binx1 mode when I was shooting on the SBIG 8300 OSC.
I now have 3 1/2 hrs of small, bright perfect bw pix of M20, no colour  no words to describe how stupid I feel .... Aaaaaarrrrrggggg! 
There's no way to rescue anything from this is there?
I'm going to make myself a checklist now, (sigh).
Andy |
Hi Andy,
I always check the previous picture for variables like FWHM to check my focus.
That way I can also see if I have stuffed something else up as well.
Don't worry - I took hours of the Tarantula once which was out of focus.
I never happened again.
I learnt my lesson & now check every frame while the next one is being taken.
Think about it - you have time to do that while waiting on the next exposure.
cheers
Allan