Maximum individual frame exposure in a SER

[GSBass]

I asked this question last year in another forum but still don’t know the answer, what would be the maximum exposure time if an individual frame befor sharpcap decides to save it as a fits instead of a movie{ser} …. *I just wanted to experiment doing some lucking imaging on some planetary nebula basically the same way I image planets. I was imaging the Saturn nebula the other night and noted that my stacking program was able to lock on to it as a disc so thought I might try stacking thousands vs 100…. Logic tells me anything below 1000ms should save as a ser but not sure

[admin]

Hi,

there is no specific limit to exposure length for a SER file, but SharpCap does auto select the output format based on exposure length (if you have that option switched on - see https://docs.sharpcap.co.uk/4.0/#Start% ... t%20format). If you turn that option off, you can capture to SER with 30 second exposures (if you really want to!)

cheers,

Robin

[GSBass]

That’s very cool Robin, don’t know if it will work well but it might,

[GSBass]

Getting some nice shots this season with Sharpcap and the imx464

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[GSBass]

Hey Robin, just thought you might like to see the results from the ser experiment, it shows some promise to just add some planetary nebula to the mix while out imaging Jupiter and Saturn, basically works just the same with stacking and the program giving you best to worse exposures etc, my program even recognizes them as planets and did the alignments well

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These were about 10 minute sers with 80% stacked 180mm mak

[admin]

Hi,

well done - those images have all come out really well. You must be very pleased with such good results from a single evening!

cheers,

Robin

[GSBass]

Definitely good enough to try again with better focusing and perhaps longer overall exposure time, thinking a good goal would be 45 minutes and then throwing out a third after the program sorts them from best to worse, you can’t really use wavlets on then the way you do with planets, your just not going to have enough frames to cancel out the noise created….. anyway fun experiment