Copernicus April 2017

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Copernicus April 2017

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Equipment: Celestron C8, Altair GPCAM MONO v1, Altair 685nm IR pass filter.
Software: SharpCap 2.9, 1000 frame video, stacked with Autostakkert (best 25%) and processed with Registax (layer 2 slider only).

[GPCAMMT9M034M]
Output Format=SER file
Capture Area=1280x960
Binning=1x1
Pan=0
Tilt=0
Colour Space=MONO12
USB Speed=4
Auto Exp Target=120
Frame Rate Limit=Maximum
Analogue Gain=100
Exposure=6.005
Timestamp Frames=Off
Subtract Dark=None
Display Brightness=1
Display Contrast=1
Display Gamma=1

Taken at 21:05 BST - I got lucky with the light to show the ridges in the crater wall.

The names came from the lunar map included with May's Astronomy Now magazine.

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Re: Copernicus April 2017

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Post by oopfan »

Great work!

I find it interesting, though, that you and I took images of Copernicus at nearly the same time, the metadata is different. We were both using SharpCap 2.9, yet your exposure says "6.005" and my exposure says "0.05". I know that mine was 5 milliseconds, and I am quite certain that yours is 6.005 milliseconds. I was using an ASI120MC.

Robin, perhaps in the future you could add units to the exposure numbers?

Thanks,
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Re: Copernicus April 2017

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Ah yes, each brand of camera has a natural unit for exposure (ms, s, microsecond for some) and that's what gets saved to the capture settings file. It would indeed be a good idea to add units!

cheers,

Robin
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