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Monthly Archives: March 2012
Focal Ratio and Capture Length for Planetary Imaging
Thus far with my planetary imaging I’ve used capture times and focal ratios just “by the book” without actually understanding how the answers were derived, so I decided it was about time I worked things out for myself. I’ve summarised … Continue reading
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Notes on Using the SPC900NC for Planetary Imaging
A while back I was looking for information on which codec was best for data capture from the SPC900 cameras and found several web pages suggesting that YUY2 (aka YUYV, I believe) was best on the grounds that it generated … Continue reading
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Observation Report 23 March 2012
I’ve not written many observation reports recently, mainly because I’ve spent my time concentrating on planetary imaging. I’m still doing that, now starting to turn my attention towards Saturn as well as Mars, but there’s time during the imaging runs … Continue reading
Veg Plot Ready for Planting
Last weekend it was finally dry enough to get the rotavator onto the veggie plot to get it sorted for this year. I say rotavator. I cheated a bit this year. Sadly work too often gets in the way of … Continue reading
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Xbox Live All-Sky Camera
I picked up an Xbox Live camera very cheaply in the hope that it might be comparable to the SPC900 for planetary imaging. Very quickly however that turned out not to be the case. When testing the camera I discovered … Continue reading
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New Images of Mars
Last night I captured what I think are possibly my best images of Mars ever (maybe even of any of my planetary images), and it may well be the best I can do with the kit I’m using at the … Continue reading
Capture codecs for Solar System Imaging
Until the last few days I’ve not been aware that the various codecs offered for capture by my SPC900 webcam (and others) are not equal and some retain more data than others. Once aware of the issue I did a … Continue reading
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Measuring Naked Eye Limiting Magnitude
I recently came across this posting on measuring Naked Eye Limiting Magnitude and decided to give it a try for my home. We live very close to Exmoor National Park which is now designated a Dark Sky site, so I … Continue reading
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Why Can’t We See The Flag On The Moon?
I answered this question for someone the other day, whose work colleagues wanted to know if he could see the flag left behind on the moon from the first lunar landing using his new 300mm telescope and thought I’d write … Continue reading
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Solar System Images
I’ve started collecting together some of my better solar system images so they have a page or two each rather than being interspersed with other posts. See the menu bar for links.
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