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Originally Posted by naskies
Aah yes - writing down the steps is a good idea! If I miss out on a month's worth of imaging due to bad weather, I usually come back and forget a critical step 
By the way, I just found this very excellent article with step-by-step instructions and screen shots - in retrospect, it would have saved me much frustration:
http://astro.azurewebsites.net/Article/ArticleContent/5
The article reminds me of a couple of things that I forgot below:
* I use 2x2 by default with the Lodestar (SX recommends it in their manual too) - I get fewer image artefacts and faster update rates too.
* Dark frame scaling has never worked well for me on the Lodestar (even with a bias frame library) - so I prefer to take darks at lots of different exposure durations. Unlike a dark frame library for 30 min narrowband exposures, this doesn't take long  |
Yeah I got Russel's great article. I used it originally 2yrs ago. I had it on the laptop last night again to refresh my memory while trying to figure things out.
Good calibration should iron out most of the issues. Then some more will probably popup on the next step.