I have abeen imaging Saturn using a Celstron 9.25 and a Toucam. I want to try imaging Saturn with an AP 130, however, the AP 130 only gathers 1/3 as much light as the Celestron 9.25. When imaging Saturn with the Celestron 9.25, I set the gain of the Toucam to minimum using K3CCDtools. I have read that it is not good to "turn up the gain" when imaging with the Toucam. Since the AP 130 gathers only 1/3 the amount of light as the C9.25, I believe that I will need to increase the gain in order to image with the Toucam. I do not want to obtain a smaller image and want the image that I get from the AP 130 to be the same size as the image that I get from the C9.25. Therefore, I will need to use a 5x barlow on the AP 130 and the intensity of the image will be very low. Is this correct thinking? Will increasing the Toucam gain reduce the image quality?
Thanks,
-jim
Thanks,
-jim
