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Fumesucker

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4. Thanks, I was discouraged looking at the video, spent six months waiting on the camera
Sat May 28, 2016, 03:59 PM
May 2016

I've got it borrowed for a month with another month option if I want and probably another month after that if no one is desperate to have it and I post some good pics. My "local" club has a few items like that but they are far enough away I don't make use of it much. A camera you can mail and don't have to mess with in person unlike say a telescope so I went for it.

So anyway, I hooked it all up and got this blurry mess, I had seen demos but it doesn't prepare you for the pot of boiling oatmeal it looks like on a bad night after you just spent an hour and half getting everything set up just right.

Ran it through the software, I could tell there was something there but it had multiple issues almost like an old analog TV, ghosts where they didn't stack right so I just kept tweaking until all of a sudden I had a clearer picture than I had hoped to get.

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Impressive Renew Deal May 2016 #1
GREAT! elleng May 2016 #2
Thanks, I was discouraged looking at the video, spent six months waiting on the camera Fumesucker May 2016 #4
I'm impressed. alfredo May 2016 #3
Thanks.. Fumesucker May 2016 #5
Welcomed. alfredo May 2016 #6
My dad was a serious amateur astronomer mnhtnbb May 2016 #7
what software do you use for the stacking? rdking647 May 2016 #8
I'm using Registax and before that I trim the frames with PIPP Fumesucker Jun 2016 #10
Very cool. Act_of_Reparation May 2016 #9
You have a mount that derotates the Earth, you would call it tracking the stars Fumesucker Jun 2016 #11
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