Cheat Sheet on Calibration Frames:

Trying to catch up. Ooohhhh! My head hurts... 😉

Cuiv could you possibly do a follow up on taking those NINA dark flats and flats to pixinsight, preparing them and applying them to lights? I think I have the master dark down now but I am not sure of thew process to combine with the flats. Love your work!!

Very well explained as usual. I do take bias frames with both my ccd and my cmos cameras but did not know about the asi1600 liking 0.1 second bias. I may even try without bias for it. I have a flat panel on my wish list. It seems so much easier! Just need to find the cash and convince my wife how important it is - they do seem rather expensive. I currently use an old t-shirt stretched over an embroidery hoop which sirs on top of the scope for sky flats but the exposure time varies every time i take them and even during taking a set plus you can get gradients with dusk/dawn flats so a flat panel would be great, especially with NINA’s flats routine. Thanks for the video.

Great explanation,your so easy to follow on all your videos thanks

Appreciate all your videos Cuiv. Have learned so much from them. Could you make a video on using an OSC or Mono Astro Camera for the first time? Thanks.

Cuiv, excellent explanation! Have a great weekend.

Hey, thank you very much for this great video. Very useful. One quick question : you mentioned to have like a playlist for optimal exposure length. Can you share it ? Cheers.

Thank you for all the right info in one video... 👍 But after watching the whole 27 minutes I now understand the irony of the title. This one will take a lot of rewinds. :)

Wonderful! Thank you

Nice work Quiv 👍

Very informative video Cuiv. Might I ask that in your next video you include a flowchart for the various types of frames as a visual reinforcement of the concepts. It all gets very confusing with similar terminology for different frames. On the flat panel, most are PWM controlled for brightness. Is the PWM frequency likely to impact on flat frames since CMOS chips suffer with rolling shutter issues? For example while playing around with flat frames I have noticed banding in the live feed from the camera. What is your preferred light source. EL panel or LED tracing tablets?

Just to play it safe I take my flats at the same gain...I use an artificial light source and use APT and NINA eventually. Using the histogram at the 1/3 from left is difficult to determine with a colour camera as the R, G, B peaks are not in the same area....

Thanks, I now know less than I already knew before watching this!

I thought reed noise was from a bad saxophone player. Read noise on the other hand. LOL Thoroughly enjoying you channel, just had to pick on you.

I would love it if you would change that White Light bulb to a Red One.

Rather new to this hobby. My kit is clearly more modest than yours, which leads me to asking, do you dismantle everything each night and bring it inside? I know there's debate about covering a telescope, but to date I break everything down and bring it inside. Weather permitting, I set up about 100 feet away requiring a wheel barrow and many trips to the house. Just curious.

Hi Cuiv, dumb question probably but when taking FLATs, DARKFLATs and DARKs ( but not necessarily in that order ) does the Telescope have to be in focus .

I sold my mount today got to wait 3 weeks for the new one. just as well theres no true darkness :)