I have had a niggle for these past 2 weeks over this IC410 data that I couldn’t quite work out.
I have tons of data, on many different systems, and I’m sad to say it is not all stored in a logical manner – in fact it’s all a bit of a mess. Clearly I need to set aside a week to get everything put in its proper, logical place.
However, before I get on to doing that, I have just this morning discovered what the niggle was all about. The image below was 18 subs at 20-minutes per sub on the 200mm lenses using the 2600MC Pro CMOS cameras and the UV/IR cut filters. So that’s a total of 6-hours RGB exposure with no added narrowband, and as you can see it goes VERY deep.
The image above is again taken on the 200mm lenses BUT the cameras were the Trius M26C OSC CCDs and the subs were 60 in total with a sub-exposure time of 15-minutes, so in this case we have a total of 15-hours RGB exposure with no added narrowband, and as you can see it doesn’t go very deep at all!
Oh dear. The old CCDs don’t come anywhere close to the modern-day CMOS do they? Nowhere near. I had suspected this, and I had suspected I was going to have to redo all the work I’ve done using the M26Cs on the Hyperstars, the Sky90s and the 200mm lenses, but I hadn’t realised it was quite so necessary.
So there you go. The rest of my imaging time on the planet has been sorted out for me, and there’s a clear warning for you. Don’t go wasting your extremely valuable imaging time using the wrong kit.
