Derek here's what i'm thinking with the cmos cameras you have, you can employ more?of a planetary approach to imaging DSOs and not sweat the guiding.? just make sure to nail your polar alignment (although i'm a longtime polemaster user, i've come to really like the polar assist in sharpcap 3.2 and it's super inexpensive too), and shoot maybe 30 second exposures. you can go as low as 15 secs.? that way guiding will be less of or no issue for you. i'm a little concerned you are headed down a guiding path that is already pretty rough, and it sounds like it's going to get rougher :) the major downside is you just end up with a ton of data. I've seen folks doing these short exposures on faint objects and when done right it's really spectacular just a thought.... Brian On Sat, Jan 4, 2020 at 8:58 PM Derek C Breit <breit_ideas@...> wrote:
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