Moravian Flat Frames

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cardiofuse avatar

I have a new Moravian C3 6100 Pro

Can someone tell me how many ADUs to shoot my Flat frames; I see the gain is set to .79 and I use Artesky at 5 sec exposures?

Bill McLaughlin avatar

Basically whatever gives you a good histogram central to the dynamic range with no fully saturated pixels. I use the histogram tool in NINA to find the combination of panel brightness and exposure time that does that for each filter.

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cardiofuse avatar

Thank you. Do you know how to set the gain on the C3 6100?

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Bill McLaughlin avatar

If it is like the C3 26000 then either in NINA or in the driver.

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