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Originally Posted by kens
Alex, Theres a fair chance you don't need a special driver for your camera. A bit of googling says the SKYnyx is a WDM camera (Windows Driver Model). That means it can connect to PHD2 by selecting camera type WDM. You can test this without using PHD2 by connecting the camera to USB and using just about any video capture program on Windows e.g. VLC .
EDIT: Correction to WDM meaning. Also, different web sites say different things about SKYnyx WDM compatibility - but still worth trying first
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Thanks you know I haven't looked to see what this computer has re video.
And thanks to everyone for all the help guidance and support.
I am fired up that's for sure.
I am not saying I came up with the dragon fly idea before they did but I had in mind buying four $200 binos 80 x 400 eight filters eight cameras ...eight hours in one...
Well I now have one hour max to image an object..so cheap cameras still costly but eight hours from one hour in my current situation would be great....And if you are using a filter say red ..any really...would the fact it may not deliver a good focused image matter as the filter would not pick up the out of focus light...
Three d print the mount, alignment would have to work with out after mold adjustment, big ask,...but a little offset could be good for dithering...so would one hour of quality time thru a high quality scope as to objectives or mirror , say the proposed eight inch go against eight hours from the $ 100 each objects...assuming deep sky stacker can manage
Following the interesting discussions between Rally and Bojan on the dragonfly I gather it has more to do with the lens quality...but my situation causes me to think how to make an hour go further...and why settle for eight when you could have sixteen on eq 8 anyways how many could go on my mount... you could print the mount and all focuser housing in one unit.. electric focusers...and I would put extended baffled dew tubes ...I wonder if they could be printed.
What is putting me off is you cant see the sky here I feel lost what can see is not the way I remember it up home its some how hard to figure out thru my narrow window all what I see ... never used goto always moved scope manually to where my target was and balancing everything was all I was interested in then I would narrow down objects or stars thru binos and be close and know where to go just thru scope...I lined the ring neb up one night like a pool shot ..should be about there yes...hjust like a pool shot.. and not in the center but in field of view of 1200 fl and 15 mm ep but down here here I think maybe get the mount to find stuff...plus cant see Shout and that was my way of seeing the sky but now its somehow seeing it looking North..
Thanks again for encouragement, support and help I really appreciate you all very much.
Good day
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Alex