Video star cluster

[davidpretorius]

Hi Guys, star cafe was not real good. The mag clouds were very bright tonight and found some fuzzys but nothing showing up on star cafe.

Can anyone help letting me know what this one is?

http://www.precons.com/iis/gallery/20050801-001%20stars.wmv

I put it through registrax and got the following photo

Also tried M42, but detail wasn't great

[iceman]

It looks like a globular cluster. Can't say which one it is though, which area of the sky were you in? If you were in the magellenic clouds, it could be 47Tuc which is near the SMC.

Were you using the long-exposure mod? What were the settings?

[davidpretorius]

thanks mike,

i am sure i was near the small cloud. saw a fuzzy through the siter and when down through the ep's

then chucked in the toucam and captured thru .avi and registrax it.

I have found that with the toucam at prime focus setting, the objects really streak across the sky. The magnification must quite high.

When i try the exposure settings using the mod, i get streaks even at exposure of .5 secs.

I will try getting the adapter to do eyepiece projection. I did hold the webcam up to an eyepiece last night and it wasn't too bad.

[iceman]

People say the Toucam is equivalent of a 6mm eyepiece, give or take a mm or two.

Using a barlow, it streaks across even faster - so you can imagine how hard it is to do planetary imaging without tracking, when you've got a 2.4x barlow in :)

I don't think you'll be able to use the long exposure mod without tracking, perhaps using eyepiece projection and a long focal length eyepiece, but that's about it.

[ving]

yeah looks like tuc47... nice one dave. you going to bypass planetary and go straight to DSOs are ya? ;)