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Post by davy on Feb 24, 2018 9:15:00 GMT
A bit different,, but I thought interesting and gives food for thought.. Well if you think out with box 😂 How good is the old gun tracking system upgraded with telescopes, wow imagine having that out your back doing video astronomy.
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Post by Dragon Man on Feb 24, 2018 13:31:34 GMT
One of those was for sale here in Australia about 3 years ago davy. The Australian Military was selling it. It was a Missile tracking platform with Telescopes already fitted Problem is, they had a price of $40,000 on it! I read the blurb and apparently it came with software that locked onto whatever you wanted, (Missile, Satellite, aircraft, etc) and automatically followed it anywhere it went.
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Post by davy on Feb 24, 2018 16:22:32 GMT
Would be good to see a home brew version of it,, a rotating frame with a chair on it , motorised ,, that would a cheeky set up
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Post by howie1 on Feb 25, 2018 1:41:49 GMT
Just go to the AstroToaster home page ... scroll down on the home page to see the developer's bino viewer / recliner / carousel which was a kit from some other bloke in the US of A ... www.astrotoaster.com/
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Post by davy on Feb 25, 2018 10:26:52 GMT
After watching the video a few times and git to wondering,, has anyone use fast frame rate camera's for astronomy,, OK the first thing we will think of is meteor capture,, but I may be barking up a tree but given the current trend of stacking lots of fast exposure video to get an image,, what would you get with an ultra fast rate camera,, now I can't find a lux level for this camera,, few on eBay around £250,, Now if you go on utube ect you can see videos of humming birds in flight and slowed right down run at a slower speed than the capture.. How would this pan out for VA.. www.keyence.co.uk/products/vision/vision-sys/cv-3000/models/cv-035c/index.jsp
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Post by davy on Feb 25, 2018 10:37:01 GMT
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Post by davy on Feb 25, 2018 10:47:23 GMT
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Post by Dragon Man on Feb 25, 2018 11:43:07 GMT
I use lucky imaging (or probably 'speckle imaging' to be more accurate) when I do Planetary/Lunar observing Davy.
I set the camera to it's best exposure for each object (usually around 1,000th of a second) and stack 3 frames constantly.
The result is a very clear non-boiling view, but because the stacked frames are so short the image still appears 'Live' to us. It allows you to view a planet or the Moon in much sharper detail and because the stacked frame rate is so fast (3 stacks x 1,000th second) the speed of the actual cleaned up view is around 300th of a second.
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Post by davy on Feb 25, 2018 12:54:29 GMT
Think I use about 125th /second with a dslr on the moon,,, would be interested in anymore info,, certainly had not heard of it myself before even though given the explanation if it,, I've been doing it already in a fashion lol
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