· Get a Cloudy Nights T-Shirt · Submit a Review / Article Click here if you are having trouble logging into the forums Privacy Policy | Please read our Terms of Service | Signup and Troubleshooting FAQ | Problems? PM a Red or a Green Gu… uh, User You are not logged in. [Login] Entrance · Main Index · Search · New user · Who's Online FAQ · Calendar Equipment Discussions >> Video and Electronically Assisted Astronomy Previous   Index   Next   Threaded   Pages: 1 | 2 | (show all) Skylook123 Postmaster Reged: 04/30/05 Loc: Tucson, AZ Re: Orion StarShoot Solar System Camera IV [Re: Skylook123]       #5539257 - 11/25/12 06:56 PM Attachment (47 downloads) Edit   Reply   Quote Quick Reply   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. Post Extras:       Skylook123 Postmaster Reged: 04/30/05 Loc: Tucson, AZ Re: Orion StarShoot Solar System Camera IV [Re: Skylook123]       #5539270 - 11/25/12 07:09 PM Attachment (46 downloads) Edit   Reply   Quote Quick Reply   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. Post Extras:       Skylook123 Postmaster Reged: 04/30/05 Loc: Tucson, AZ Re: Orion StarShoot Solar System Camera IV [Re: Skylook123]       #5539280 - 11/25/12 07:14 PM Attachment (44 downloads) Edit   Reply   Quote Quick Reply   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. Post Extras:       mclewis1 Thread Killer Reged: 02/25/06 Loc: New Brunswick, Canada Re: Orion StarShoot Solar System Camera IV [Re: Skylook123]       #5540565 - 11/26/12 03:56 PM Edit   Reply   Quote Quick Reply   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. Post Extras:       Skylook123 Postmaster Reged: 04/30/05 Loc: Tucson, AZ Re: Orion StarShoot Solar System Camera IV [Re: mclewis1]       #5573317 - 12/15/12 10:13 PM Edit   Reply   Quote Quick Reply   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. Post Extras:       Pages: 1 | 2 | (show all) Previous   Index   Next   Threaded   Extra information 5 registered and 5 anonymous users are browsing this forum. 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