From: "cosmicrock2001" <ursamajor_1@mac.com>
Date: March 17, 2012 12:36:42 PM MDT
To: Astro_IIDC@yahoogroups.com
Subject: Re: Maaaars!
Thats ok, I forgot my PGR scorpion has FW800 output and when imaging the sun earlier this week had it plugged into the 400 and couldn't understand why it wouldn't go over 15 fps- Duh! Its hell keeping track of all this stuff if you are under crappy skies 1/2 the year -and am an old fart like me!
Ron
--- In Astro_IIDC@yahoogroups.com, Jim Chung <jim_chung@...> wrote:
Thanks Alan & Ron,
Ron - I am a fool! You're right, my 17" does indeed have a FW800
port, I just never looked closely. And to be a bigger fool I spent
money buying a FW800 to FW400 cable. Pffhhht!
Jim
Quoting cosmicrock2001 <ursamajor_1@...>:
Very nice Mars Jim! I'm still waiting on good seeing. I have a
similar vintage Macbook Pro (Intel 2.2) and it has a FW800, are you
sure yours doesn't? The new ones may not have FW800 but the new
'thunderbolt'?
I presume you've max'd out your ram. Have you thought about faster
hard drives? I need more cap. at least, and have been looking at
these hybrid 7200rpm drives, which have some capacity as solid state
drives which makes them faster than a standard 7200 rpm drive. A
SSD would be great, but they're still kinda pricey for me in big
enough storage for all the astro videos.
http://eshop.macsales.com/item/Seagate/ST750LX003/
comments about these drives, from Milton or others appreciated.
Ron
--- In Astro_IIDC@yahoogroups.com, "matt carmine" <jim_chung@> wrote:
I was doubly blessed last night. Thin scattered clouds that
plagued us at sunset cleared by 10 pm and good to very good seeing
ensued well past midnight. This was also one of those rare
opportunities when buying astro tech where it definitely pays to
live in Canada. I ordered the Flea3 with the ICX618 sensor from
PGR on Thursday morning and they FedEx shipped it that afternoon
from Vancouver. I got it Friday morning, what service!
I was happy with the imaging results:
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/4852049/MarsMarch16RGB.jpg
The ICX618 is apparently the most sensitive sensor out there and
very popular as such. I'm not sure I noticed a large difference in
that regard with the Scorpion. It does seem to be less noisy so I
can apply higher gains more easily. And I do get to shoot at a
real 30 fps since the ROI'd Scorpion tops out at around 24 fps? I
even tried 60 fps last night but had to half the size of the video
frame to achieve the bandwidth under Firewire400.
Which got me thinking. My Macbook Pro is 6 years old now. If I
bought a new one which has the Firewire800 port, I could achieve
higher fps without fiddling under Format7. They also come with SD
card slots so would it be advantageous to write data direct to the
card - would it have faster write times than to the HD?
Jim