Hi all

Here is my first Saturn photo of the year. Its not a very good image, the focus is way off and I ran the ccd in auto mode, that did not help matters any. Any way this is a 60sec avi at 1/15 of a sec 10 fps.

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thazt very good for first picture of ther year, am wondering why don t you take longer movies like 2 or 3 mins, and what was ur gain at>?

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Hi ozzmosis

Thanks I will try again when the weather is better. I maybe wrong about this, but I was told that Jupiter and Saturn avi's should be no longer they 60 to 90 sec because of planet rotation. If anyone knows more about avi timetables when imaging planets please let me know. Paul

well for jupiter the max for avis is about 2 mins no longer
saturn i ran mine for like 3 mins at 10 frames a sec and am sure u can get it to 5 mins no problem
try it out let me know paul

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Hey Ozzmosis

Thanks next time out, I will try more time on my avi's. Thanks Paul

When you guys take these avis, are you manually guiding the scope?

Does the planet have to remain exactly in the same place throughout the capture sequence?

What did you use to create the final image?

Thanks!!

Hi Flagon

Avi's are short movies using times like 1 sec to many min. Avi's are used mostly for Planets. Your computer is your eye piece, so as long as you keep the image on the screen you do not need to guide the telescope.

After you take an avi/movie you need to process it, I use registax 4 to do this. It takes all the images that you made and stacks them into 1 photo.

After that you run the photo through photoshop or some other program to clean it up. There are other programs that do other things to the photos.

It sounds harder then it is. Paul

hey
myself i do a rough polar alignment and then run the laptop, plug in my cam and sit in front of laptop and beside telescope , get a focus , then just make sure my object stays center on my image and i film. jupiter is a max of 2 mins
and saturn i run between 2 to 5 mins same with moon pics,,,

after i use virtual dub and extract all bmp images to a folder, give it a quick look take out the really bad ones of any.

then run them in registax and stack them to get final resault.

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