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Originally Posted by Startrek
Carlton
The default settings in Startools usually give you a reasonable result even with poor to average data.Tweaking doesn’t hurt either on the conservative side
Wow so much detail in there now and star field is so much tighter
Like everyone has suggested, try and chase as many subs as you can through a nights imaging on an object
I’m currently imaging NGC 4594 Sombrero galaxy ( magnitude 8.5 ) with my 6”f6 newt in Bortle 8 Sydney with an 84% waning Moon staring at me. I’m running 90 sec subs at ISO 800 ( histogram just under a 3rd from left )
Just clicked over sub no 70 and pushing for 100 subs or more if the moon doesn’t get up to high overhead
My guiding error numbers are rubbish due to poor seeing 1.80 to 2.30 arc sec error but I’ve switched from the Hysterisis algorithm across to the Predictive algorithm ( PEC ) in PHD2 and my guiding is holding steady at 1.70 to 1.80 arc sec error with stars across the field still round and fairly tight
Cheers
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Cheers Martin...
Guiding is my next challenge... I set out the other night to get Stellarmate up & running to control my mount, my DSLR & get guiding. What I didn't know is you can't configure guiding from the Stellarmate app yet, you need to run a virtual window on the tablet to do that... everything else worked though & tonight, despite the fact it's raining outside, I managed to setup my artificial star & at least go through the basics of configuring PHD2 for guiding...
It sort of worked... an artificial star at 6m doesn't exactly resolve into a pin point star, even when focus is good...
PHD2 preferred little reflections off my tripod, oven door, etc... in preference to the nice big fat light I gave it.. LOL
Anyways, I think I gained some knowledge out of the exercise so, hopefully in about a week when this rain is supposed to clear, I'll get back out & capture some more data & get guiding running to boot...
Cheers