Hello everybody! Over the last few weeks I have been watching all your photos, and it seems to me that the majority of you use ordinary DSLR cameras! Most of your posted photos are beautiful. I have been trying to get a handle on ZWO 224 and 1600 mono - and so far all I seem to get is rubbish. I have tried Omega, Eta and Jewel box many times and have taken last week 60 x 30s at Eta, and 40 off 30s at 4755 with mono ASI1600 LRGB and not a skerrick of colour , Should I use my Pentax and crank it up to 1600 ISO and try total 30 minutes? The only times I used my Pentax at Orion M42, I got quite decent colour, but very small image!
What's the go with these fancy special astro cameras? There must be a trick to using them somehow, or is it just a gimmick to relieve keen photographers of their money.
For now, I'll be screwing my trusty Pentax to the scope - at least I can get some colour and sparklies that way - not just round white blobs, AND I have no problems with JPEG. I have tried RAW and have never seen any improvement.
