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Originally Posted by iceman
Dennis what do you need to adjust on the camera itself?
Almost all of the settings can be changed via software, in my experience. The only exception is MLU, but that's set once at the beginning of the session and not touched afterwards.
Have you considered downloading the ImagesPlus trial, or one of the other DSLR capture/workflow programs to try it out?
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Hi Mike
Thanks for that. Last night, it appeared that when you “Enable” MLU, it greys out the interval timer button, so you are not able to set the 40D to grab say, 10 off 300 sec exposures. Also, with MLU Enabled, it looked like I was limited to 30 sec exposure as when I set Bulb, I couldn’t find a place to set the exposure to e.g. 60 secs, so I resorted to using the remote cable release. This may be just a learning curve as this was my first night with new camera and the unfamiliar Canon software, so I’ll have to investigate further as intermittent clouds prevented me from doing much more.
I’ve already got ImagesPlus 2.8.1 so I’ll have a dig around in there and see what it can do, although I suspect as that version preceded the 40D, I’ll probably have to upgrade to a newer release that caters for the 40D?
I have noticed that when imaging at focal lengths of +1500mm, any source of vibration needs to be eliminated in my set up as if definitely blurs the stars from what should be pin points.
Cheers
Dennis