From: Milton Aupperle <milton@outcastsoft.com>
Date: October 18, 2005 12:38:25 PM MDT
To: Astro_IIDC@yahoogroups.com
Subject: Re: [Astro_IIDC] Re: This is a blast!
Hi Duane;
On 18-Oct-05, at 12:15 PM, Duane wrote:
I'll post that when I get home. The saturation is turned low. I don't like the strong colors, I
tend to keep that pretty low but I don't recall what it was at.
Unless you threw it out, it's still available for you in a text file, like
20050911_154923_L.txt
the actual name of the text file will vary, depending on the date time you started grabbing images and movies at.
Open the text file and it lists everything you did when you took the images or movies (and any notes you want added too), like
=================== File:20050911_154921.51_L.tiff
Color Camera - Model:'Flea' SerialNumber: 0x448438
Gamma: 1.00
Blue Gain: 75
Red Gain: 63
Brightness: 1023
Black Point: 255
Exposure: 10.00 seconds
Sharpness Limiting On: 0
Dark Frame Subtraction On: 0
Flat Frame Correction On: 0
Invert Image On: 0
Flip Horizontal On: 0
Flip Vertical On: 0
Binning Off Color
For movies, it lists how many frames were recorded too
=================== File:20051012_003625_L.mov #frames 1042
Color Camera - Model:'Flea' SerialNumber: 0x448438
Gamma: 0.97
Blue Gain: 77
Red Gain: 47
Brightness: 645
Black Point: 0
Exposure: 33.33 ms
Sharpness Limiting On: 0
Dark Frame Subtraction On: 0
Flat Frame Correction On: 0
Invert Image On: 0
Flip Horizontal On: 0
Flip Vertical On: 0
Binning Off Color
Knowing what the above settings are helps out a lot in figuring out what is wrong.
I am probably doing something wrong then. Last night I took a lot of images at a lot of
different settings to see what would happen. Now I just need time to work them all out.
Maybe I need to get another Astro IIDC for my dual G5. That would push through this a lot
faster. However, I am glad I licensed it for the computer and not the camera because I just
ordered the better camera and will have it to play with next week.
Quick question: I shot the Moon last night but didn't have a very good polar alignment at
the time and I've got field rotation. Will Astro IIDC handle that or are those candidates for
my "Whoops" file?
Nope it doesn't rotate or compensate for field rotation. How long was your total movie recording time then, because if your picking up field rotation that seems a bit odd.
HTH..
Milton J. Aupperle
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