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Old 14-04-2008, 08:41 PM
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Originally Posted by iceman View Post
Why do you need a baader mod on the QHY8? it's already allowing in h-a, right?

No dark frames is a big plus!

Watching this thread with interest..

Mike, like you said, no darks are a big plus.
How many times has anyone that has a camera with high noise, thought, hmmm, a nice night for imaging. Then thought, Oh poo, i have tosetup then setup bias, dark, LRGB (For mono sensors). Then thought, too mush trouble, leave it for now...
Gees, sounds like a "Set of Steak knives" commercial !.

But wait, theres more !!!!.

Seriously, all you do, is turn on the camera, while its cooling, setup your scope, pick what you want to image, connect the camera, run your software to focus the camera, then take a 2 minute exposure. Hmmm, looks good, but i will change the exposure to 5 minutes, click, click, time now set to 5 minutes and click to start exposing. 5 minutes later, theres your image. No re doing darks, no taking darks, no waiting a certain time to stabilize the sensor temp.
10 minutes later, move your scope to a very bright object, thats ok, change time to 30 seconds, click click, exposure ready in 30 seconds.

This is what i like about cameras that have low noise. I loved the Starlight Xpress SXVH-9 when i got it many years ago, for that reason.


Theo
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