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Capture settings and Equipment
Meade 8" SCT with Orion 80ED gudiescope on Losmandy GM-8.
Polar aligned and guided using ToUcam and K3CCDTools V2.
Canon 300D and Meade 6.3 focal reducer. Focused using DSLR Focus and JMI NGF-CM focuser.
6 X 5 min @ ISO800 and 1 X 10 min @ISO 800, image capture controlled using StarMate.
Originally taken as RAW converted to jpeg and stacked in Registax. Only levels processing and cropping in PS. Originally processed the RAWs in Iris with darks and flats, but I wasn't happy with the result, still haven't got the knack of that prog yet. The colour potential and detail were great but it seemed to put a lot of noise and artifacts into the image that I couldn't remove. Might have to bite the bullet and pay for Noiseware.
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