Friday 1 December 2017

Very Disappointing Results.

Having re read my copy of 'Capture every photon' again, I decided I had been using too high an ISO on the Nikon D5300 and so decided to drop it from 3200 to 800. After the usual trials and tribulations I ended up getting around 2 1/2 hours of data for M81/82 and about 1 1/2 for IC405 . The results:



HORRIBLE!!

There was an almost full moon, hence the realy bad gradient on the IC405 pic. However, though th e images are 'cleaner', there is much less detail. I think I will try 1600 ISO (though I might just go back to 3200!)