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Old 19-08-2006, 03:39 AM
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asimov (John)
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Hi.

Thought I'd see what all the fuss was about with this DSO caper

I LIKE IT !!

I'm not really setup for it ATM, the EQ5 falls flat on it's face with a F10 SCT with a toucam shoved in it, brings out the worst in it even with a .06 FR. Spent 3 hrs drift aligning the bugga & got 8 second exposures tops

This widefield stuff with the standard lens piggybacked it does ok though

This is 7 X 2 min exp. stacked; Heaps of noise & hot pixels to battle against using this webcam it seems I took 2 darks & stacked 'em otherwise the outcome would have been a lot worse!

Question: Would faster exposure times & more stacked be the answer to killing off some noise & hot pixels? Perhaps more darks stacked into a master dark?

I'm hooked & I'll be doing a lot more of this kind of thing, hopefully improving along the way
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