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Don't get dead set on all your capture times being the same.
I've been playing around doing some nebulae captures and noticed that my Ha/SII/OIII were not that impressive (240-300 second captures). I just started working on M1 and decided to try something different. I'm running them at a 600 second capture and there is a WORLD of difference between the detail of the 300 ones.
I will be adding some comparison images once I get some.. but tonight I'm trying to grab some data that I inadvertently deleted whenI reset my RPi trying to troubleshoot it.
One thing to be aware of... you need your RA/DEC in as low (preferably sub 1.0) if you are going to do 600+ second exposures. I'm getting some slight elongation on my images, and my mount is showing a pretty stead RA/DEC...but it is above 1.0.
This is a quick screen capture over the VNC of what OIII did @ 10 minutes
I've been playing around doing some nebulae captures and noticed that my Ha/SII/OIII were not that impressive (240-300 second captures). I just started working on M1 and decided to try something different. I'm running them at a 600 second capture and there is a WORLD of difference between the detail of the 300 ones.
I will be adding some comparison images once I get some.. but tonight I'm trying to grab some data that I inadvertently deleted whenI reset my RPi trying to troubleshoot it.
One thing to be aware of... you need your RA/DEC in as low (preferably sub 1.0) if you are going to do 600+ second exposures. I'm getting some slight elongation on my images, and my mount is showing a pretty stead RA/DEC...but it is above 1.0.
This is a quick screen capture over the VNC of what OIII did @ 10 minutes