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Old 14-06-2012, 07:30 AM
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I have been around astronomy all my life, but imaging for only 6 months. You will keep finding little ways to improve and slowly improve.
If you can improve your tracking, you can start to increase your exposure times. Taking lots of bias and dark frames helps.
The better the tracking, the longer the exposure, the more light you have.

Here is an example of increase the number/amount of exposures on the same object with a scope similar to yours (C9.25).
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