M42 5th Sept.

[asimov]

The little modded toucam is starting to strut her stuff woo:Phooo!

C'mon Ken (Ballarat Dragons)....Hurry up & stoke yours up mate!? :thumbsup:

Here's my new 'camera' BTW :rofl:

LE modified toUcam/EQ5

[iceman]

Nice widefield there, asi! What's it doing inside the tube (3rd pic)?

[RB]

Yeah very nice M42, you captured great colour there John !!!

[Striker]

Thats his dew shield Mike,

Thats some great work their Asi...fine job imaging a DSO with that equipment.

[h0ughy]

you should see what he does with a 29 dollar DSE scope!

[tornado33]

Yep nice work there. Thats a very effective dewshield, should keep it dry on the dampest of nights.
Scott

[asimov]

Thanks guys.

I won't be shooting through the C9.25 with the toucam so I made this contraption to take its place on the EQ5 rather than piggy back it. Much more convenient. Plus this arrangement is easy to carry in & out without breakdown.

So yup, its a dew shield as well as stray light baffle & when I want to take darks I just pop on the original dust cap.

Its made from a 4.5" reflector tube (cut down to 350mm) that become redundant sometime back.

It has the C9.25 finder on it too.

[iceman]

Nice work john, great ingenuity and making the most of the equipment available to you.

[asimov]

Houghy, even I draw the line at using a DSE 29 bucker ;) but I have taken some very nice moon pics thru a 60mm bushmaster zooooom refractor & the trusty kodak easyshare!:P

[ving]

great stuff for a little webcam hey! :)

theres a little program that'll take those halos away fromthe stars ya know :)

[asimov]

Yeah, when I find one that takes the halo's away without damaging the actual captured nebula, it will be good. Until then we'll just have to put up with halo's;)

Hotpixels worked ok, but the tradeoff was overall blurryness of the shot..Whats the halo removing proggy your thinking of Ving ?

[ving]

i cant get on to the site atm, but its on the astrosurf.com site...

[ving]

loreal...

see if it does any good.

http://www.astrosurf.com/hfosaf/uk/tdownload.htm#loreal

its not the one i was thinking of but well... my memory is poor.

[asimov]

Thanks mate.

[h0ughy]

:lol: :rofl: :thumbsup:

[davidpretorius]

great work maestro!

are you going to try colour raw mode. i have found it very tight on stars

[asimov]

Extremely tempted Dave, but I don't wanna stuff your camera up!?

[ballaratdragons]

It has been cloudy ever since I put my Toucam lens system together. :sad: :sad: :sad:

[ballaratdragons]

That program will fix up all my old images!!!! Thanks Vingo.

But does anyone know a link to that site in English? and I can't seem to download the program itself, just the instructions on how to use the program :shrug:

[asimov]

Yup, I had the same problem...theres no actual download for it; at that link in any case? :whistle:

:shrug:

[spearo]

Nice image well done
I admire anyone of builds up equipement I must say!
well done indeed
frank