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Old 08-06-2017, 10:04 PM
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Originally Posted by Mickoid View Post
Thanks Colin, I did have to darken the background a fair bit to disguise the moon glow. You can pick up the older G series cameras pretty cheap now. I like the ones with the ccd sensors rather than the cmos sensors for astrophotography, I feel they are more sensitive to Ha but I'm not sure why. Should there be a difference?
From what I've been able to notice, CCD have a stronger red response than blue while CMOS sensors are the reverse, stronger blue than red.
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