Thanks Martin. This was 120 x

Forums Comets Comet 46P/Wirtanen Thanks Martin. This was 120 x

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Dawson
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Thanks Martin. This was 120 x 30seconds, so an hour in total. I’m going to wait until it is higher in the sky and try for 60 second subs, and maybe try without the LP filter. I think the LP filter is also cutting out a good proportion of the cometary photons.

I’ve got an ZWO 224 (colour) but it’s not cooled so I suspect it would be vastly more noisy than my Canon and not significantly more sensitive, but maybe worth trying that too, but I suspect 30 seconds on the ZWO would be VERY noisy.

Food for thought, thank you.

James