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Old 11-11-2006, 10:45 PM
Dennis
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Parasitic lines...

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Originally Posted by iceman
Beautiful, Dennis.

Do you know why you get the horizontal lines on your images?
Someone on CN suggested that the horizontal lines are parasitic lines? I presume these are the result of some unwanted electrical behaviour or characteristics in the ToUcam circuitry, due to the extremely fast shutter speeds being used at the time. Or, maybe using the Baader 3.8 ND filter places too much thermal stress on the ccd chip?

Cheers

Dennis
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