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Skylook123
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Re: Orion StarShoot Solar System Camera IV
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#5539257 - 11/25/12 06:56 PM Attachment (46 downloads)
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And a shot with the reducer. Both are 150 frame/10fps stacks using Sharpcap freeware instead of the provided Amcap, and running the AVI output through Avistack2.
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Skylook123
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Re: Orion StarShoot Solar System Camera IV
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#5539270 - 11/25/12 07:09 PM Attachment (46 downloads)
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Here is a solar shot I took about a year ago. The amount of effort to get the settings to capture an image is quite a lot, but it is a $90 device.
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Skylook123
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Re: Orion StarShoot Solar System Camera IV
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#5539280 - 11/25/12 07:14 PM Attachment (44 downloads)
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Finally, setting the gamma to zero brings out the prominences while wiping out the solar disk, but it was setting behind Sombrero Peak, about 15 miles from my back yard.
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Re: Orion StarShoot Solar System Camera IV
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#5540565 - 11/26/12 03:56 PM
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Jim,
Great shots. I love the Saguaro silhouettes.
Interesting comments about the sensitivity of the adjustments. I've noticed something similar with some video capture apps and a webcam. Changing the app really helped me ... for example using Sharpcap made things quite a bit easier.
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Skylook123
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Re: Orion StarShoot Solar System Camera IV
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#5573317 - 12/15/12 10:13 PM
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Thanks, Mark. I was a bit surprised at the time to see the relatively close cactus in focus, so I stopped shutting everything down and grabbed 150 or so frames. And Sharpcap not only made the adjustments easier, but it saves a companion text file with the AVI file that gives the settings used. With Amcap, I had to make my own notes in Excel.
Two weeks ago I tried Jupiter with the 90mm, but there was not enough focuser travel outward without the reducer, nor inward with the reducer. Then clouds came in so I couldn't try some extension tricks without the reducer, nor pulling off the diagonal to get more in-travel with the reducer, and I haven't had time to go back and try Jupiter again. But, as with the sun and moon, focus is right up there with the other parameters on all or nothing in the eyepiece. The image at full in-travel was like a basketball, with the two available moons right where they should be, but it would have needed another 1/8" of in travel to get bands on the image in focus. Now we're in three days of rain. Figures.
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