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Old 04-08-2025, 11:01 AM
Cyberman (Rob)
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Pierre, that looks pretty good to me for a single frame. Focus and tracking seem ok. Next step is to take a lot of light frames like this (about 120x 30sec frames to start) and stack them in ASTAP or deep sky stacker. These are free programs. I like ASTAP better. You also need to take calibraton frames ie. dark, flat, dark flat and perhaps bias frames to add to your stack. Flat frames will remove defects from your optical train such as dust motes on your lens or sensor. Dark frames will correct some problems with your sensor eg. hot pixels. The peripheral dots might be dust motes. The other streaks might be something to do with pixels in the sensor. The calibration frames may correct a lot of these problems. You then process the stacked picture with other programmes. I use Siril and Gimp which are also free. You can also improve tracking with a guide camera and guide scope using the PHD2 program (again free) but I don't know if you can do this with the EQ3 mount. But so far you're on the right track.
Good luck for the rest of your astro journey, Rob.
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