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Ving: those images were taken with a Sony bullet camera plugged into a panasonic camcorder.
David: I was only using a 3x barlow for those images. No ep's and the lense from the camera was removed. Hmmm I just thought, the distance between the Barlow lense and the CCD will affect the focus as well as the distance from the secondary mirror to the barlow, right??? I seemed to get good focus on themoonhowever so it can' tbe that bad.
I could see the bands when looking through the ep but they faded in and out. After reprocessing the images I can clearly see the bands in the photographs. I found the wavelets section had a big impact on image quality. Setting wavelets 6,5 and 4 to 30,20 and 10 respectively did wonders. I played around a little more from there but only got small improvements.
I tried the star test thing with that link. I think the seeing is about 2-3 but I would have thought it would be better than that (no wind, no clouds, no moon but in dark backyard of Perth). Interestingly the abberations seem to form 3 prongs from the center rather than a full circle. Does this mean I have alignment problems? This is meant to be done focused on the star right?
Still waiting on a laptop to get the logitech webcam going. I installed the K3CCD software on the desktop and had play. I can change the exposure and a heap of other setting so hopefully I can get better images even though the resolution of this camera is much lower than the bullet camera.
Cheers
Brett
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