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Old 21-08-2009, 09:53 PM
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Originally Posted by CometGuy View Post
Mike,

I converted your full size image to grey-scale, saved it as a fits file and ran it through Astrometrica. According to it you are detecting stars to mag 20.5 V, not bad for a 6" scope!

Terry
How did you correct for non-linear scaling? The posted data is only 8 bit/channel .jpg You *need* a calibrated 16bit (data) frame to make a determination such as this.

Last edited by Peter Ward; 21-08-2009 at 10:00 PM. Reason: clarification
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