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Great to see you got yours and got a first light Martin, I only got the chance to get mine cobbled together and get a very quick first light with the spacing not sorted yet and no guiding, even that shows real promise.
Coming from my ASI294, the big difference is no great big starburst sensor glows, but the noise is either massively reduced, or just a lot smoother than the 294. I went from an old Canon DSLR to the ASI294 and the Canon had no glows of note, but so many hot pixels that a dark looked like a starfield! I shot a full darks library before I got first light, but with or without darks at 120 second exposures made very little difference.
I am really looking forward to my new mount arriving so that I have guiding again, and getting the spacing sorted so I can give it a proper crack, but I have not had a clear night since first light anyway! The new mount is self guiding with a guidescope in the puck (Which I expect to be OK at the short focal length of my refractor) so I really don't want to mess around putting my old OAG in the train (Which is going on my SCT) so that I can test more on my old mount, just to remove it again later and work out the spacers required all over again.
Cams are not the only thing delayed, my new mount was supposed to ship from ioptron a week ago but even getting the consignment picked up was a problem. Hopefully it is on the way now
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