[codemonkey (Lee)]

Originally Posted by Atmos

Exceptional job for a sub 5" scope Lee! The resolution is fantastic!
Out of curiosity, how often were you changing filters?

I must say that settling time is the absolute biggest improvement that I get upgrading from the EQ6. The EQ6 would sometimes settle nicely in 5s, sometimes 30s+!
I don't even have one anymore Due to the theoretical smoothness of your guide graph, your Linear should be significantly better than your EQ6 was in that regard too

Thanks Colin :-) In order to try and balance out overhead whilst overcoming FPN, I was running LLLLRGB<dither>. I could have run multiple RGB but that would have come at the cost of less luminance and wouldn't have decreased the overhead that significantly.

Settling isn't *too* bad, usually a couple of seconds between frames. To be honest I only want to settle when dithering, but that's not an option as far as I can discern. Currently I settle at < 1px for 2s which means guaranteed 2s overhead every frame. After dithering it can take a bit longer to settle (I use extreme dithering x2).

Originally Posted by atalas

Very nice result Lee

Thanks Louie :-)

Originally Posted by glend

Great Lee, nice central detail coming through.

Thanks Glen :-)

Originally Posted by cometcatcher

Very sharp Lee. 35 sec subs hey..... Well you've just given me all sorts of ideas now with astro cams.

Thanks Kevin :-) Short subs can work well but you need a camera with low read noise. I wouldn't try this with an 8300 for example, but with the new low read noise CMOS chips it becomes an option. Of course you don't really *need* one of those cameras, but it hurts your integration a lot less with them than with traditional higher read noise CCDs.