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Old 21-10-2024, 08:59 AM
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Originally Posted by Leo.G View Post
Will you be doing colour with the full image when time and conditions permit?
As I said, that's the plan

Was in town last night, Canberra CBD, looking over the top of a nearby tram station with lots of side facing lights of course (becasue that's where you need the light right??), on a heavily lit arterial Rd and intersection = no comet visible from our apartment balcony

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Originally Posted by alpal View Post
Nice work Mike,
I hope the new camera goes well.
My bet is that you'll measure better seeing with it on good nights -
perhaps 2 x 0.68" = 1.36 arc seconds now?

cheers
Allan
Hope you are right, I think you will be, in the end it's the final image that counts of course

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Originally Posted by Ryderscope View Post
Good to see the new camera on board. A bit hard to compare and make an evaluation with Lum v Ha but the initial sub for the new camera looks to be shaping up well. One point to note is that the smaller pixels may require slightly longer exposures and/or increased sub count to achieve the same SNR. Probably not a lot in it going from 4.54 to 3.69 microns but if you are going for the really faint stuff it may make a difference.
Yeah, not the best comparison, other than I guess to graphically show how much fainter the Ha signal is in a nearby galaxy compared to the luminance! I think I was strangely relieved that it all worked and just felt like sharing

Mike
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