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Old 12-11-2014, 10:31 AM
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Originally Posted by Paul Haese View Post
I am using a KAF8300 on one of my rigs. I do long subs (minimum is 20 minutes for RGB) for every filter. I don't appear to get saturated stars. Some of this must revolve around what you are doing in post processing, to bring out the star colour.
I get saturated stars with 10 minute L subs and 5 minute bin2x2 R, G, and B subs with my setup (TSA120 + STT8300).

And I was just looking at a 15 second L bin2x2 image I had used for platesolving and it has a couple of saturated stars.

This sounds different to your experience Paul, any thoughts?
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