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M13 with the Atik 314L+


red dwalf

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taken on a moon lit night again, not very dark skies but did a little test picture as i try to get to grips with imaging techniques and processing.


very short exposure times and not many exposures, 7 x 2 minutes each in the RGB and 12 x 2 minutes in the lum channel.


 


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Nice one. Unsure as to why you are using darks on such short exposures though, the 314 is a very quiet CCD, have you remembered to turn on the cooling? It makes a huge difference.


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Thanks, I had the cooler on but it was fairly warm night so only managed to get down to minus 8 so I thought I would throw in some farms to help, might try the processing again without the farms.

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Thanks Allan, capturing is becoming the easy part, hard part is the processing, been playing with different settings in deep sky stacker

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Nice one Rob.


If you can get hold of a copy of Maxim grab it.


I found processing the 314 images way better with it.


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That's a really nice image considering you had the moon to contend with. A bonus galaxy chucked in for good measure. NGC6207 I think.


WHEN, we get darker, clearer nights I think you will do well. 


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