[Atmos (Colin)]

Originally Posted by glend

Nice depth in that image Colin.

Originally Posted by RickS

Looks good, Colin.

Thanks

Originally Posted by cometcatcher

There sure is a lot in that. Everyone is turning out really good stuff with that camera.

It is the low read noise that makes the difference.

Originally Posted by SimmoW

Thats lovely and deep Colin, great rez with your scope. Yes the cam is so flexible and im still experimenting. Try gain 75 as a comparison for a couple of shots?

I have 900 luminance shots of the horsie at 2 secs from Heathcote- thats gonna be a fun experiment!

The seeing was quite good early on but degraded as the night went on, as I had already ditched all of the bad subs I couldn't pick and choose too much. I had Maxim doing 3 pixel dithers but sometimes that gets a bit screwy (I think I should start double checking certain setting every time I open MaximDL) but it was doing moon width dithers! Then as other bits of software realise it isn't pointing at target it gets dragged back to position. About 3:30am I turned dithering off and got a couple more subs before the clouds came in

At the moment I am organising a 24 panel mosaic of the LMC with only 1 hour of Ha per panel so that I can finish it before I die At Unity I can do 9x400s as opposed to 6x600s at Gain 75 which gives me better rejection and a stronger statistical distribution if I decide to Drizzle under good seeing.

I am glad I am not your computer working through all those subs, looking forward to seeing the result however.

Originally Posted by Shiraz

that looks great Colin.

Thanks Ray.