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Originally Posted by Dave882
Cheers Mark, Martin, Steve. It really is such a fascinating region to explore covering a huge area. It’s well placed in the sky right now but definitely needs plenty of integration and a nice dark sky! The 2600mc seems to do very well with whatever I throw at it. I’ll have a go with the Hyperstar at some point which is probably a more appropriate setup for this target…
Martin- yes I know what you mean! I tried this target with the c8 and could hardly get much at all. But even after one 5min sub with the c14 I had really nice colour coming through. Luckily even though the seeing conditions were a bit soft, guiding was steady and I didn’t throw out a single sub, even the subs I was using for framing! Figured I needed as much time as I could get!
OSC from the suburbs can be a bit tricky especially with broadband targets and I’m still experimenting a bit to get the best signal/noise. But I’m certainly not complaining-not after seeing a pic of your backyard!!!
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I’ve had my 2600MC for nearly 2 years now and I’m still experimenting in Sydney, although Gain 100 seems to work better. Down the south coast in my Obs under Bortle 3 , anything goes with both Broadband and Narrowband, just set it to Gain 0 , Highest Dynamic Range and take your subs , a few mins to 5 or 10 mins.The noise floor is so much lower you hardly need noise reduction in processing, chalk and cheese between locations.
Cheers
Martin