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Thanks Mike & Jase.
The single 60 sec photo was just me playing with the new toy and certainly I would need to auto guide and grab much longer exposures to do this region justice.
However, early thoughts are that I prefer the HW/SW combo of a dedicated astro ccd camera such as my SBIG ST7. Maybe its just early days with the 40D, using the SW, etc. but CCDSoft seems to have a better user interface, workflow etc because it was designed to be astro imaging centric whereas the Canon suite seems less integrated or smooth in its appearance and workflow?
An example of this is having to access the Menu on the 40D “on camera” to change certain parameters, whereas everything in CCDSoft is done at the computer. This is simply due to the fact that the Canon is a DSLR designed for “normal” photography whereas the ST7 is a purpose built astro ccd camera.
However, it was just lovely seeing a glorious, big chip, gorgeous colour image appear on the screen after staring at my B&W 765x510 pixel ST7E for 3 or 4 years!
Cheers
Dennis
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