Proms July 2nd, 2020 - PG Flea 3 vs. ZWO 178

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Proms July 2nd, 2020 - PG Flea 3 vs. ZWO 178

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Hello everybody: sorry for the late post. Yesterday July 2nd was very warm here, around 90 degrees. I had a short session in the afternoon and imaged the proms with the PG Flea 3 and ZWO 178 minutes apart and in the same weather conditions. The Flea 3 is 3.2Mp and the 178 is 6.4Mp and about the same pixel size. The full disk is with the Flea 3. All images are with the SolarMax II 90mm single stack. I tried to process the images in very similar way and reframed them to about the same size, for what I could. I like to hear your opinions.

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Re: Proms July 2nd, 2020 - PG Flea 3 vs. ZWO 178

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Difficult to say. Even taken minutes apart there are large changes in the proms, and possibly seeing.


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Re: Proms July 2nd, 2020 - PG Flea 3 vs. ZWO 178

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I see them all very good and as Dan says minutes can change the seeing.


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Franco:
Very nice session and images.
As Dan says, I also think that seeing changes are to blame, the same happened to me.
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Re: Proms July 2nd, 2020 - PG Flea 3 vs. ZWO 178

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Nice results Franco. The ZWO images are noisier and shows more posterization, but that may well be just the processing causing it.


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Thank you all for your comments.

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Re: Proms July 2nd, 2020 - PG Flea 3 vs. ZWO 178

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Nice whichever combination, Franco. Conditions can be such a large variable factor in side by side comparisons.

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Re: Proms July 2nd, 2020 - PG Flea 3 vs. ZWO 178

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Nice set of images, Franco.

I can only join what has already been said; they both look great in their own right (can't really pick a favorite).


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Nice job, Franco.
As the others have said, it’s hard to come to a conclusion about relative camera performance.
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Thank you Stu, Jochen and Peter for your feedback.

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Re: Proms July 2nd, 2020 - PG Flea 3 vs. ZWO 178

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I think I prefer the Flea 3 images, the ZWO are very noisy. I find my ZWO extremely noisy too :(

I love the full disc :bow :hamster:

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Alexandra: thank you, I am of the same opinion. I will try the 178 on other targets, like chromosphere or the moon.

Franco


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Very nice images Franco.


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Very nice result Franco.


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Thank you James and Marios, very appreciated.

Franco


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