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Old 03-05-2020, 11:22 AM
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lazjen (Chris)
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C/2020 F8 SWAN 03 May 2020

I did my first ever comet imaging run this morning and as is the way with new things there's always a few things going wrong (some unrelated like my dome decided to go nuts and continually rotate; or Voyager stopping my guiding setup). It's a learning process. The PHD2 guiding did not seem to work as the comet moved across the images.

I'm too tired to do a proper full process with nice stars, etc, right now, but this is my test run process (using PI for CometAlignment, etc).

This is a LRGB combine, using 15 sec images at gain 200, -15C for the ASI1600MM-C. There were 31 subs per channel.

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I'm hoping to have another go at this tonight. I'll try the PHD2 guiding again, but I think I'll switch to Unity gain (139) and 30 sec images.
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