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Old 11-06-2007, 09:18 AM
tornado33
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Triffid, first "remote control guiding" attempt

Hi, after purchasing a Phillips Toucam webcam, then getting hit by the massive Newcastle 1 in 30 year storm, the skies cleared last night to allow me to try the camera for guiding, the off axis system doesnt produce good stars, bery comatic, but just enough to see on the laptop display, so I sat down watching it, and making manual guiding adjustments. Image scale is huge, a fraction of a second press of the fast or slow button seens the star move noticably. This was the first try, still a little bit of error, but will try it on other objects and see if I can find brighter guidestars.

Triffid Neb, 3x15 mins ISO 200, Houghys cooled DSLR camera UV/IR filter, MPCC, 10 inch f5.6
Scott
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