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Hi Robin

Thanks for the response.

I will have a look at the smart histogram functionality. I have so much going on in setting up the process I almost need a checklist. I am trying to get a good spreadsheet together to give me ideal exposure times.

Regards

Stephen

Hi Robin, I was wondering about what impact the moon has on the sky background calculator. Surely a full moon would have a significant impact on the calculations. I have a cousin who lives in a the darkest skies area I know and I try to take advantage of this location compared to my Bortle 5 skies. ...

Hi Robin, Thanks for the response. I am using the latest downloaded version of SharpCap. The problem is when I do the second part of the sensor analysis where SharpCap drops the exposure time down below the 6 microseconds the camara has as a min exposure. I don't know if what I do to adjust the illu...

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Greetings, I have searched on this but nothing meaningful is returned. I am trying to do Sensor Analysis on my QHY 163C and when I started the process, I moved the two little red arrows (that form some area) to another area and then started the Sensor Analysis again but it complains about "Sele...

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Greetings, I recently purchased a new QHY 16200A CFW7 camera that with the supplied OAG and adapter is 2.4 mm longer than the required back focus for my reducer/flattener. I might be forced to ditch the OAG and use a finder scope. I currently use a ZWO 30F4 with a ZWO ASI 120MC-S for polar alignment...

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