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Originally Posted by naskies
That's fantastic, Rick! And only 2.5 hours worth of data!  My only minor suggestion might be reigning in the noise in the fainter nebulosity, or add a tad more data?
I've been mosaicing the Cat's Paw with my RC8/STF-8300 for a while... I'm up to 31 hours in Ha and it has about the same (maybe a bit less?) SnR as your effort  Not surprising though - I think your set up catches photons at 12 times the flux rate as mine 
I'm glad you've got this combo working well - can't wait to see the LRGB images. Have you thought about pointing it at the one target for 120 hours?  |
Thanks, Dave. I was hoping to add some more data but I probably won't have a chance for a couple of weeks.
I do like the cameras with 9um pixels. It seems a lot quicker to get clean data than with the smaller pixels on the KAF-8300. Of course, you take a hit on image scale unless you have a long FL and big aperture. TANSTAAFL
I have some LRGB for the Cat's Paw. May not get a chance to process it soon unless I do it on a plane.
I'd love to collect 120 hours on a target but I reckon it would take me a few years at the current rate!
Cheers,
Rick.