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Starting to really enjoy this AP stuff. I've got a Celestron Nextimage camera on it's way ( second hand from another IIS Member ) so more options coming up. AVI through the 10" is next and stack the frames.
I'll look into this 'binning' procedure, I've seen it mentioned quite a bit but haven't followed it through as yet. I've been using the 'Unsharp Mask' at 1.2% to slightly sharpen up the final pic. It seems to reduce halo slightly and as long as you don't over do it seems to do something similar.
I'll run some longer exposure/tracking tests as soon as the clouds get out of the way. I'd love to get a good pic of 47 Tuc because it is just so dense with stars so that is the first goal.
My DSLR is a Konica Minolta 7D and it has some excellent capabilities with setup but it's other big advantage is a very low noise CCD even up to 3200 ISO. I'm running at 800 at present but 1600 is easily usable and means I can still keep exposure times down. Then I need to work out how to use the dark feild exposures to find any hot spots although I have yet to see one in processing. I'm using a f5.6 70-300 Zoom at about 160mm.
Cheers again for the help.
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