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Originally Posted by laika
Ken,
Lovely images. I have observed some of these recently and am currently in the process converting a spc900nc/00 toucam for long exposure.
I would be interested in exposure details, once again great work and it has inspired me to push on and do the mod.
Brenton. (aka laika)
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Brenton,
I would love to let you know the exposure details. Everything was pushed to the Max!!!
Only because my Toucam is dying.
But normally, I find that with the modded Toucam, the best settings for faint galaxies is 70-80% brightness (100% tends to burn out the core of objects), 100% Gamma, 5fps, 1/25th second, Gain 'ZERO', and the Saturation level is up to you whether you want colour or B&W. I use 100% myself.
Hope that helps
EDIT: Oops, forgot to mention the exposure times - most of the medium to faint galaxies come up pretty good around the 180 - 200 second mark, and I usually capture 10 - 12 images to stack. Some of the brighter galaxies ony require around 160 seconds. Orion Neb and other bright nebs (Swan, Eagle etc) come up nice around 140 - 160 seconds. Again, all around 10 - 12 images stacked. As you do it you'll find out exposure times before things start to 'burn out'.
