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Originally Posted by Mickoid
Thanks Andrew, I record to the camera's SD card and copy the capture to the computer later. That's one advantage of the dslr over a dedicated planetary camera, less to take outside and no cables hanging off the OTA. The Jupiter capture was a 3min grab, Saturn a 6min grab and Mars was 3.5mins. The seeing, I would regard as average during the captures. Had I used the ASI 120MM, results would have been better but my wife had the Laptop to watch movies on Netflix.  |
Thanks Mickoid, I certainly understand the advantages of less cables
. I assume you are capturing at 60fps, I was only able to get 20fps from my 700D connected to my laptop through BackyardEOS (which is why I went with the ASI224MC). I don't think you would have got much better results with the 120MM (especially in variable seeing), my own testing puts the 700D and the 224MC pretty close, albeit with my old 6" SCT. Sensitivity on the planetary imagers is about double that of DSLR, but noise levels are higher.
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Looks like the weather's improving in Melbourne, Sunday night looks the goods at the moment
Andrew