Quote:
Originally Posted by plantnerd
Wow colin 670mm is really long for such A big mosaic and I thought I was crazy shooting at 300mm. Your F5 seems to be adding some noise to your 60sec exposures even though your camera should be a fair bit better than mine for noise.
That is the beauty of F2.0 my lens is effectively like a small SCT with hyperstar so 30 seconds gets pretty deep and not too much noise but I might upgrade my camera to a modded one or 20mp with lower noise and if I nail polar alignment I should be able to do 60secs.
I also have a NEQ6 so I want to try to program that to do the mosaics automatically.
|
It get some pretty nice detail if nothing else

Pixels are still really big at 8.445 micon so that is one reason I'd like to go for a Nikon D810a with its 36.8mp sensor
60s is REALLY not enough for this camera, it cleans up considerably better at the 120s mark at ISO1600. I have found that if I don't get above the read noise it is very bad. These were shot at 32º above horizon so also not very well placed.