ASTROPHOTOGRAPHY WITH THE SONFEST SAC IMAGERS Last updated: 17 November 2006

Subject:	Moon photos
Sent:	Friday, November 17, 2006 16:40:03
From:	Paul Campbell (iamzoup@yahoo.com)
here are a few recent Moon photos. They were taken using a meade etx 125
and a sac 7 ccd.  All are 20 sec.avi's at 1/75 of a sec. 30 fps. All
were processed in registax 4 and cleaned up using photoshop 9.0 -
photofilter - noiseware.

Subject:	Moon photos and a Mars photo taken with a sac 7 
Sent:	Saturday, April 22, 2006 11:13:07
From:	Paul Campbell (iamzoup@yahoo.com)
Here are a few Moon photos and one Mars photo. All taken with my etx 125
and a sac 7 ccd.  the Moon photos are 20 sec. avi's at 1/150 of a sec. 
The Mars photo is a 90 sec. avi at 1/20 of a sec. All processed in
registax and cleaned up using noiseware and photoshop.

Also here is a photo of the orion nebula.  It was taken using my etx 125
and a cybershot mounted to a 40mm lens.  The photo is a 30 sec.shot. 
cleaned up in photoshop.

Subject:	SAC video capture software
Sent:	Saturday, April 8, 2006 06:08:14
From:	Craig J. Kopra (c_kopra@hotmail.com)
The other night I used my SAV-IVb CCD imager and had recently updated
the AstroVideo software that came with the camera to the lastest
revision because I was not too happy how it captures AVI files.  The
video quality of the acquired image was very choppy and inconsistent
regardless of how I adjusted the settings.  Well, the latest version was
not that much better for my XP-based notebook.

Are there any other programs you are familiar with that will work with
the SAC cameras (and possibly also the Meade LPI) to acquire better AVI
files?
  
Best regards,
 
Craig Kopra

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