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Post by Deleted on Jul 24, 2014 11:39:01 GMT
Finally had some luck. There has been a run of clear night this week and it has given me a chance to tweak the camera. I have been plagued with dead pixels ruining the image on screen, but finally found out how to make the camera perform its own dark frame to eliminate them. Now the image on screen is beautiful and picking out the stars and constellations is much easier. I have a recurring problem with bad codecs which locks my Handyavi proggy up, but it does seem to run for a while before this keeps happening. Rebooting the proggy sorts it out until the error comes back for no reason that I can understand. So I left the camera running all night and handyavi finally captured a meteor before locked up again. This was my view last night looking NE with Perseus near the bottom of the frame. This was a sporadic meteor. Here is the unprocessed avi . tinyurl.com/qygzt88
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Post by Dragon Man on Jul 24, 2014 13:02:24 GMT
Woo-Hoooooo the Avi Video looks great Allan! Isn't it great when things work
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Post by Deleted on Jul 24, 2014 13:24:05 GMT
Thats a bright one Allan! Good catch. Ref the locking, send an error report to Handy they are very quick to respond with help.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 24, 2014 14:08:37 GMT
Nice one Allan, you using UFO capture to grab these?
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Post by Deleted on Jul 24, 2014 16:44:21 GMT
Hemmi, I'm using the cheaper Handyavi deluxe package. Its fairly easy to use, but finding just the right sensitivity to catch meteors but avoid unwanted events is tricky. I had over 400 1 second captures of nothing, and only caught this one a few captures before the proggy locked up again. Just lucky I guess.
Ken, I'm just pleased to have caught something real. It was pretty bright and came from the wrong direction, but hey ho, I got one.
Carl, I'll send a note to support. I had read on their support page that some folks experience codec errors and that the K-Lite codec package could help, but when I tried to download it, my antivirus rejected it.
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Post by davy on Jul 24, 2014 17:14:47 GMT
Brilliant capture allan..very bright..davy
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Post by Deleted on Jul 27, 2014 6:36:23 GMT
Nice capture of a meteor. How are you removing the hot pixels?
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Post by Deleted on Jul 27, 2014 8:11:20 GMT
Thanks Michael. There is a menu item in the cam called 'Blemish'. The manual says its for removing dead pixels, but all attempts failed. Then I read in another camera manual that this process should be done like taking a dark frame with the lens covered and at senseup x64. So I covered the lens and activated the blemish menu and it removed all the dead pixels automatically. The image is great now that I don't have 23 false stars in it. Makes star hopping much easier now. I don't know if I would have to do this dark frame every time I turn on the camera as I haven't turned it off since. I just leave it running 24hrs a day.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 27, 2014 14:43:03 GMT
What camera are you using?
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Post by Deleted on Jul 27, 2014 15:58:28 GMT
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Post by Deleted on Jul 27, 2014 20:42:20 GMT
Finally had some luck. There has been a run of clear night this week and it has given me a chance to tweak the camera. I have been plagued with dead pixels ruining the image on screen, but finally found out how to make the camera perform its own dark frame to eliminate them. Now the image on screen is beautiful and picking out the stars and constellations is much easier. I have a recurring problem with bad codecs which locks my Handyavi proggy up, but it does seem to run for a while before this keeps happening. Rebooting the proggy sorts it out until the error comes back for no reason that I can understand. So I left the camera running all night and handyavi finally captured a meteor before locked up again. This was my view last night looking NE with Perseus near the bottom of the frame. This was a sporadic meteor. Here is the unprocessed avi . tinyurl.com/qygzt88 Hi Allan,
Nice capture and a clean image. What camera setting did you use, did you uses any integration? I suspect yes my the dotted trail.
Clear skies... Shevill
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Post by Deleted on Jul 27, 2014 21:52:31 GMT
Hi Shevill. From memory If I remember correctly it was AGC 12dB and DSS/senseup x8. I'm finding that x8 or x16 will give a good image and avi depending on LP. Last night I had a very clear sky and used x16 but as cloud came in I had to reduce it to x8 or the clouds were too bright.
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