Tough break, my friend. It would cut down on the number of targets per night, but perhaps you could bracket each target? Shoot short and long for each. On Tue, Jun 24, 2014 at 3:40 AM, Wiggins Patrick <paw@getbeehive.net> wrote:
I missed the recent SN in M-82 because the exposure I was using was too long which allowed the SN to hide in the glare of the galaxy.
So I switched to shorter exposures.
Tonight I spotted something in NGC 4386 using the shorter exposures. Three more shots and it was still there and not moving.
Thought I had another one until I checked online and saw someone else got it a couple of days ago. So I went back and looked at my image from the discovery night and it was not there.
So my short exposure was too short.
Too long and I missed one. Too short and I missed another one.