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experimenting with camera settings on M51, Matt Fulghum
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experimenting with camera settings on M51

experimenting with camera settings on M51, Matt Fulghum
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experimenting with camera settings on M51

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After reading a _very_ interesting thread on CN, I decided to try using the Low Read Noise settings on my ZWO camera. This is a fairly high gain setting, which requires fairly close monitoring of the exposures, to make sure you don't clip the brighter stars, and requires lots of subs to recover detail, but since the subs are short, the total integration time is the same. it's more computer intensive, but it's a lot easier on your mount. I'm pretty happy with the results, apart from the obvious tracking issue.

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experimenting with camera settings on M51, Matt Fulghum