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Originally Posted by DJScotty
Thanks Slawomir. Your kind comments are greatly appreciated
I took the OIII several months ago when I first got the AZEQ6 when carina was rising at about 2 or 3 am. Since then I have balanced the scope nicely and can regularly pull good 30 minute subs (please don't think I am bragging as I am not). Just haven't got around to reshooting the OIII. And as you said, the clouds do not look like disappearing any time soon. Having said that, looking at the national radar loop, http://www.bom.gov.au/products/natio...sat.loop.shtml, I do hold some slight hope maybe late tonight or tomorrow night... We will have to wait and see.
In regards to the camera pixels and sensitivity, unfortunately I have no idea. There are surely some very smart people out there who will be able to shed some light on that... ANYONE!!!
All I know is the pixels are 9micro-meters on the 11000
Once again, thanks very much for your comments.  |
No worries Scott
I am looking at upgrading my HEQ5 in the future; it is good to know that AZEQ6 works very well for you
Given that my maths is correct...pixels in my camera are 3.69microns, thus have about 1/6 surface area of pixels on your CCD, theoretically giving you 6 times higher sensitivity. Even if we take into account about 30% lower QE and 40% smaller light bucket (80mm vs 102mm), I strongly feel you can go with much shorter subs when shooting the Carina nebula and still have sufficient detail. Might be worth testing...let's hope the skies will allow for experimenting...