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Old 01-09-2007, 12:21 PM
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ballaratdragons (Ken)
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The full Moon image is a mosaic of 9 images. Each image is huge. I reduced the size of each one and stitched them together.

Gamma, Gain, Saturation, etc can be used in thousands of combinations, but learning a few will be good enough.

Turn off any 'Auto' settings, and do it manually. Attempt to keep 'Gain' low, or on Zero, as Gain adds noise.

For example, on the bright Moon I had:
Brightness - 50%
Gamma - 60%
Saturation - 100% (Saturation is full colour to Monochrome scale)
Exposure - 30 fps
Gain - 10%

For Deep Sky I usually have:
Brightness - 80%
Gamma - 100%
Saturation - 100% (Saturation is full colour to Monochrome scale)
Exposure - 5 fps
Gain - 0%

Everyone will have their own favourite settings. Experiment and work out which settings suit you on each object, then write them down so if you go back to that object you'll know what the settings were last time. They may change slightly each time due to seeing, light pollution, temp etc.
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