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Old 16-10-2007, 12:15 PM
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NGC253 & St-7XME

This is only the third time I've had a play with this camera and I'm quite happy at my progress. I've still to learn so much about it but there is potential there even with me using it

NGC253: Orion ED80 and WO 0.8x FR, IR filter only used on camera, 60 frames @ 30sec, track and accumulate, automatic dark subtraction. Slight curves, levels, noise reduction, rotation and crop in PS. Slight blooming is evident in the brightest stars. Still to learn how to quickly and effectively deal with these little blighters.

I tried to do some colour frames but I need to bake the desiccant as fogging is definately a problem. I think shortly I'll be ready to go beyond the Track and Accumulate and do longer exposures with the grab function. And then I'll be ready to use CCDSoft. Atm I'm using the proprietary CCDOPs.
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