Sol 10 August 2013 Single Panel 9.1mp PGR

[Paul Haese]

This image is the very first from this new camera. I bought a 9.1mp Point Grey Research Grasshopper3 to eliminate the need for mosaics in future.

Not a really fast camera but fast enough to capture 5 fps for 2 minutes. Pretty happy overall with the camera and this being a test; it looks like a great camera. Now for some good seeing.

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[George Ionas]

Looks good to me Paul. What is your image file size for a two minute capture?

[Matt Wastell]

Hi Paul
That is a great camera for discs - lots of details and even illumination - and quicker than mosaics. Looking forward to seeing what it can do under good conditions!

[Paul Haese]

A two minute capture is 5.6 gig, 150 seconds is 6.4 gig. As you can see it gets pretty chunky quick.




That is my thinking Matt. Full disk at high res with one video. I am yet to sort barlows. The barlow I used for this is a Siebert optics but I just don't think it is as sharp as the 2x TV. To get the TV to work as full disk I will need to get an adapter made up to reduce the metal back distance to reduce the image scale.

[asimov]

Interesting. Is the new camera sensitive enough for a disc & prom run rather than separate captures with different settings?

[Paul Haese]

Yes it is John. The proms where in this shot but I chose to rip into the curves just to see the detail on the surface. I just did not do a mask to bring out the proms again. I was doing this with the last PGR camera too which is a similar generation to this camera. The beauty of it though is that I now can use USB3 instead of firewire.

[asimov]

Yeah, the USB3 is a big plus. I'm making a tower soon with all the top spec items, just for USB3..

[Paul Haese]

As it is new interface John just be aware that the USB connectors and cables sometimes have SS on them. That means super speed apparently.

[Derek Klepp]

Nice one Paul I look foward to your progress with this camera. They just keep getting better as technology progresses.

[Quark]

Very nice Paul, reckon this camera has "wall chart for the observatory" prospects written all over it.

Cheers
Trevor

[icytailmark]

man i wish i was as loaded as you paul. You always get awesome gear!!!

[Solar]

Looks very promising Paul.

[Poita]

What bit depth are you using when capturing, Paul?

[Paul Haese]

Peter I am using 14 bit for capture.

I got the camera downloading at 9 fps today. 120 seconds is 9.5 gig of avi.

[Peter Ward]

Cool. :thumbsup:

What capture software?

[Paul Haese]

Peter using flycapture to capture with at present.

[Star Catcher]

Missed this one Paul. Yes agree the one shot hi res is the fix for multi panel blues. The image shows plenty of promise, now for some decent seeing! :)

Ted