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Old 28-09-2008, 04:43 PM
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New Toy - Orion Starshhot Pro - First Light

Hi All
I had my first foray last night with the new SSPRO cam. I wanted to "move up" from the DSI's to a cooled, large format cam without paying too much.

An interesting experience 1st time out. Everything is bigger, heavier and takes longer. I managed to get M17 with 5x300sec RAW subs on the ED80.

I've had to put it up on my site as the files are too big http://www.users.bigpond.net.au/calleja/. and I've included an original scale version for comparison.

A big minus that I hadn't considered was processing. Each file is 36Mb and my dual core with 2GB of RAM is very very slow. Capture is OK though.

Take a look and tell me what you think. Its always fun to get out with a new toy!!

I've updated the site with an image of M8 - similar specs to the Swan.

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