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Old 14-05-2014, 07:05 PM
alphamone
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Got perfect skies here in Canberra. I have even tested out my telescope camera with a barlow lens and have gotten some nice image quality (and worked out how to make youtube use the telescope camera rather than the built in webcam), and should be perfectly set up for later tonight.

I will do another test once Saturn gets close enough to the moon to find it by manual scanning with the fine movement knobs (i don't have a goto scope, and dont have any ground level enough to put my telescope on for the RA; DEC measurements to be useful) to get the manual exposure settings set.

What will really be fun will be trying to time the reappearance at 10 pm, probably going to just track the point of the moon where it will reappear, start recording a few minutes before it is due to show, and just edit it in post.

Hopefully I will have a youtube link in about two hours time.

edit: got my settings set, waiting for saturn to get within the FOV of my camera to do final adjustments and start recording.

Not a very high framerate or resolution, but here it is.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HtZerdHtNEU

Last edited by alphamone; 14-05-2014 at 08:59 PM. Reason: updating status of preperations.
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