Toucam Stuff

[Exfso]

I found this reply to a guy in the yahoo toucam groups, in relation to a problem he was having with grainy results when imaging. I thought it was worth posting, someone may find it useful.

First of all, consider your local seeing conditions. This can make a
huge difference in itself from night to night. Are you watching a
clearsky clock for your locality?

1) Are you using an IR filter? Image will be grainier WITH an IR
filter than without.

2) Are you using a higher frame rate? 5 fps will give you best looking
frames, 10 will give you more frames but lower quality within your
time limit window 15 and up are too compressed and will suffer.

3) Jupiter's rotation is FAST (under 10 hours) so you'll end up with
smears in place of details if you image for more than 60-90 seconds.

4) Use a lower gain with a longer exposure as opposed to a higher gain
with a short exposure. This will lower your noise and grainy appearance.

5) try to peg the brightness meter at around 120 or so

:confused: :astron:

[ving]

great find, i wonder if it solves the porob of anyone ere?
whats a clearsky clock?

[seeker372011]

Only for North Americans i'm afraid

http://cleardarksky.com/csk/

a lot of te Americans and Canadians on overseas forums ted to hace these apearing in their signature blocks

wouldnt it be loverly ...

[[1ponders]]

Actually I think I came across something like that for us (as in Aussies and Kiwis) the other day and I thought it might be handy. Didn't book mark it though. (You tend to get a bit rushed when browsing at work :P ) I'll see if I can track it down.

[[1ponders]]

Ok its called Hotbar and when you load it and use it you tend to get slammed with adds. But if you uninstall it you get the option of leaving the weather bar and removing everything else. (when uninstalling you have to uninstall the outlook component separately) Its a totally different interface but gives forecasts up to 15 days. I could even customize it for Nambour here on the Sunshine Coast and I don't think anyone outside of Queensland has heard of Nambour :P Overall rating, maybe 6 - 6.5 outta 10. Give it a go you might like it. http://www.hotbar.com/

[[1ponders]]

Make that 4.5 - 5 outta 10. Its starting to annoy me. Especially if I want detailed information I get redirected to Accuweather.com and run around all over the place. The basic desk top stuff is ok as is the 15 day forecast. And its nice to have a live temperature reading on the task bar but that's about it.