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Old 26-05-2009, 07:22 PM
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Video grab & go

Been mucking around for a little while with various video permutations. Have wanted to use some of my old film SLR lenses so made up a rough-as adaptor out of some plumbing to mount a Tokina 200mm lens to the end of one of my CCD camera's.
Going to be a work in progress but so far it gives fair viewing of the moon and open clusters, still trying to work out optimum settings for more deep sky stuff.
Next thing I'll be doing is making up a mount for two of the cameras in a side-by-side arrangement. Recently acquired a couple of CCTV lenses from eBay to use as wide-field:
  • 16mm
  • 10 - 120mm zoom
The tripod you see is pretty crummy. Would like to get a sturdier one or even an Alt-Az. Other option is to mount natively or piggy-back on the EQ6 but I want to try and make it as a portable easy-peezy option.
Other items on the to-do for this will be some kind of Peltier based cooling to try and lower the amount of hot-pixels at higher sense-up as well as a platform to mount the monitor/s.
Will post more pics when I get a chance
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Last edited by lacad01; 26-05-2009 at 08:14 PM. Reason: correction
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