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Old 29-03-2008, 07:37 PM
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First Solar Light with the DMK

I set the PST up on the CG5 today with the intention of trying the DMK out to see if I could achieve focus. There was patchy cloud around so that slowed down progress a bit, but eventually it came together. I had to use the lens out of my 2x barlow in the node piece of the DMK to achieve focus (and no UV/IR filter).

These images were captured with the following settings:
Brightness =0; Gain = 374; Exposure = 1/370s; Gamma = 26, FPS =60.

The mosaic was assembled, cropped, colourised and saved for the web in PS CS3 using photomerge. The other two were stacked and wavelets applied in Registax V4, then colourised and saved for the web in PS CS3.

Lots of dust bunnies! I tried Mike's Q-tip and distilled water trick - unsuccessfully... I'll have to invest in an arctic butterfly or something! oh, and I found the PST was a little light for the CG5 counterweight by itself so I ended up with a 2lb lump hammer taped to the counterweight shaft!

Al.
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