Tonight I'm going to try binning for the first time on the QHY-8,
weather permitting. I have never owned a camera capable of
binning so I'm flying blind tonight....as I do most nights
If any QHY-8 gurus could help me...
I plan to:
Do a deep set of something like M83...by deep I mean maybe over
30 sec! WOW...unusual territory for Steve
For the lum/raw frame set.
Then do a binned 2x2 set for RGB data.
I assume the 2x2 set are done at 30sec exposures also? or
am I way off here?
Also, so far I have used Gain=zero and offset at 126 (for 5-10sec sets)
Is this around the mark for a good offset or logic tells me that the offset
will be exposure length dependent......go longer and the histo creeps up
to the right therefore offset can be less?
Any advice most welcome.
cheers,
Steve