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Old 12-08-2015, 04:41 PM
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Lee "Wormsy" Borsboom

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Hey Mark,

Not quite what you're asking and maybe not better, but different. I take flats using my laptop screen as a source of light.

I set my background to white, move applications out of the way/minimize them, and then set SGP to start capturing in 10 seconds. That gives me enough time to position the screen over my scope.

From there, I take 25x0.3s exposures. The exposure time will vary depending on your scope, your camera and screen brightness so you'd need to experiment a bit, but I am for the spike on the histogram to be about 1/3 of the way from the left.

Anyway, just food for thought.

Cheers,
Lee
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