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Old 01-03-2011, 12:17 PM
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If you can take 1 min subs with no guiding and get good stars (your PA is going to have to be spot on) and you ran through the usual processing and post processing procedures, you should get fairly good piccies. Naturally enough, the longer your subs, the more details you'll get and the better your S/N ratio will be. However, I wouldn't be going to try and hunt for really faint fuzzies as 1 minute subs will really not be long enough to capture them well. Bright DSO's like M42, M8, M31 etc etc, will be more your targets. Planets will be drop dead easy....don't really have to guide at all (just track), but you'll need a different camera to photograph them. A webcam will be sufficient for this purpose, with some slight mods.
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