From: Milton Aupperle <milton@outcastsoft.com>
Date: February 10, 2006 2:15:41 PM MST
To: Astro_IIDC@yahoogroups.com
Subject: Re: [Astro_IIDC] iBot, Trapezium
Hi Neale;
You can probably do a little better if you
1) Turn on "Enable 'CCD Over Drive' register optimizations" in the Preferences Sheet.
2) Set the "Camera Display Format:" to one of the 2x23 Binned modes.
HTH..
Milton J. Aupperle
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On 10-Feb-06, at 12:34 PM, neale_monks wrote:
Milton,
I thought I'd let you take a look at a picture of "The Trapezium" in Orion. It's not a great
picture _per se_, far from it in fact, but what's cool is that all I used was Astro IIDC and the
standard issue iBot camera. The exposures were done at 133 ms.
http://homepage.mac.com/nmonks/astronomy/Resources/trapezium.jpg
It's captured all four stars in the Trapezium -- just! -- with the faintest one being about
mag. 7.5. The telescope is a f/10 200 mm SCT. The frames were stacked in Lynkeos, with
only a little post-stacking improvement.
Anyway, I don't suppose this is terribly interesting to those with high-end cameras, but for
those of us stuck with the consumer models, it's fun to see how far you can "push" the
equipment and still get worthwhile results.
Cheers,
Neale
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