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Originally Posted by astronobob
Agree on all that thanx Dunk, I had exposures of 10ms, and adjusted gain and gamma to show saturn up to the extent of being able to see the cassini division rather sharp as relating to contrast - a nice thin black ring. if went higher on settings Cass div became washed out and thought not, tho maybe can go further and process the ring back ??
Trail and error !!
Thanx again for you input 
mmm, bigger scope, I struggled to afford the 12 - very happy with it tho
Would love a 14 but then also need to upgrade the mount $$ & prob build a bigger caboose  |
Yeah know what you mean Bob
I'd love a 14 but not sure my back would
FWIW, I've been using 60fps/16.67ms with my C11, but obviously your 12" draws in more light. On my astro netbook it more or less halves my frame rate. YMMV depending on the oomph of your capture machine.
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Originally Posted by Stonius
Hey Dunk,
for those of us trying to understand more about what you guys do, could you please tell us why is a SER file better than AVI?
Google search just seems to say it's a serialised file? I don't understand why it allows faster framerates?
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LOL yeah it's just a raw byte stream. Converting to AVI to save to disk has some CPU overhead, and there are no other advantages to using AVI (it's just a video container).