15-7-2015 Ha 4 pane mosaic with x 5 powermate

[Ibbo!]

Lunt 60mm x5 powermate

best 250 of 500 frames

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[Pete Presland]

Excellently stitched together and processed.

[Dave Smith]

Very nice. You seem to get away with using a large proportion of the frames. My target is usually the best 10% of 2000, or less total frames if there is a lot of cloud interruption. I possibly need to experiment some more.

Dave

[Space Cowboy]

Excellent!

[Johan L]

Nice detail in those!

[Ibbo!]

Very nice. You seem to get away with using a large proportion of the frames. My target is usually the best 10% of 2000, or less total frames if there is a lot of cloud interruption. I possibly need to experiment some more.

Dave

Yes I would

with the new cam and the old I had gain to lowest

histogram to between 90 and 95% in Firecapture

without the powermates I'm at about 3.5 ms 36fps

with x 2.5 its about  25ms 24fps

anfd the x 5 itwas 99ms 9fps

and I capture in ser now but it used to be avi

the new cam is quieter than the dmk31

[Ibbo!]

Thanks for the comments

I did spend longer on the focusing today and have fitted an ol JMI motorised focuser

[michael.h.f.wilkinson]

Very nice indeed

[laudropb]

Great images. I am impressed with the amount of detail you have captured.