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Old 22-05-2006, 06:21 AM
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They're great Al, but I find the limb way too dark. Can you try capturing with gamma at 40-50%? It may look "washed out" while capturing, and even while sendnig through registax, but it can be processed down afterwards by reducing the gamma in registax or AstraImage afterwards. The very low gamma you have now does give good contrast, but I find the very dark limb distracting and not a true representation of what can be captured, or what you see through the eyepiece. but that's just me.

There's some great detail there.

At that image scale/focal length, you could easily capture for 2 minutes without rotation. It's easy to tell if you've captured too long - take the first and last frame in the avi, and "blink" them, and see if you can find any rotation of the features.

Guys with C11's and C14's capture for 130seconds (filter wheel changing involved), and their focal length is much longer than yours. So you could easily go the same time. I know I'll be capturing for 2 minutes from now on, and my focal length is usually around 6300mm.

Great images!
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