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Originally Posted by Dennis
Hi Ralph
Once you have control over your equipment, technique and processing, even with the seeing being cooperative, there still remains a significant element of plain good luck! 
For example, there were 300 frames that contributed to this image, harvested over a period of almost 120 seconds. Looking at the PC screen during the capture, I could see bursts of 1 or 2 second excellent seeing events, but only in sub-sections of the frame, and then it was back to indistinct mush. 
I think I recorded maybe 12 AVI’s and only this one had that detail in the data. One other AVI almost made the cut but the remaining 10 or so were trashed, just not even worth the CPU cycles in processing. 
I have the PC in my DIY portable observing hutch so essentially I can do all the preparation and focusing out of direct sunlight, in relative comfort, and this encourages me to persevere whereas in the open I may have packed up just due to glare, discomfort and heat induced fatigue.
Cheers
Dennis |
Thanks Dennis,
My DMK51 is no good for that sort of capture. Frame rate is way to slow.