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Originally Posted by sheeny
Dennis, there's a very technical reason for capturing in BW... I'll try to explain it in simple terms... 
I forgot to uncheck it after imaging the moon on the previous session... (I didn't even notice until my last avi of the night - I was using a red screen filter so didn't notice the lack of colour as it was captured either)
  
I find as I get older I'm doing more and more stupid and embarrassing things... I hope I don't wear out my sense of humour... that would be sad! I console myself by thinking about all the young sharp minded dudes that this will also happen to one day!!! 
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Hmm, reminds me of Qld Astrofest 2006. I had the mount perfectly polar aligned, auto guiding was spot on. I was grabbing 3 minute sub frames of NGC6744, all 20 of them. Or so I thought. At the end of the session, I noticed that I had forgotten to “tick” the “Save every image” box, so I ended up not with 20 x 3 min exposures, but only 1 x 3 minute exposure. Then, the clouds rolled in….
I would have got away with it, but Mr H0ughy happened to pass by as I was sobbing, and so my secret was out….
Cheers
Dennis