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Old 25-05-2009, 08:08 AM
Hagar (Doug)
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Eta Carinae Short Subs VC200L & QHY8

After looking at the images taken by Kinetic I decided to give his short sub method a try. Using my VC200L and QHY8 I set out to take 200 30 sec subs. Well high level cloud came in and ruined this exercise. I ended up with 174 subs which looked OK. Running them through IP3.5 and using the auto grading system I ended up with 154 usable subs which were combined. The resulting image was a lot better than I thought I would get without any calibration files at all.
Probably a little to much sharpening of the stars due to high cloud but thems the breaks.
VC200L at f6.4
QHY8
Fully guided with QHY5 and ED80

I must try this on some other targets.
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