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Hi Guys,
Mike, thanks for having a look at it, I am not going to worry too much at this stage, perhaps I will fiddle with it later.
Doug and Fahim, after digging it out I found my OLD Logitech Express Webcam which I think only has a crappy CMOS sensor and from memory has really bad low light performance so this may be a dead end.
I did however find the Pentax Video RCA cable that came with it and tested that by plugging it into my video DVB-T TV card in my PC and "streaming" the video from the camera straight to the home PC.
This allowed me to use the Pentax as a live video stream and capture directly in the Compro DTV application as an AVI or MPEG with absolutely NO compression on the codec (massive file though).
I am going to rig up a long RCA cable from my office to the telescope as I have no laptop and then do some testing with the scope outside the office window and see if I can capture some loss free pictures to the hard disk and then spend some time processing and will keep you posted.
The trade off with the webcam idea is that I dont currently have a suitable laptop and while I would easily purchase a $500 one and a webcam etc for $150 ish, I could just as easily buy a $650 Canon Eos body and do it all with that I suppose with a lot less stuffing around.
Add to that the budget limitations at the moment, then I will keep fiddling with the less than ideal gear that I have and see what I can get from it.
Thanks again for the tips and your time explaining things to me, sooner or later I will exhaust the limited technology and then find myself trundling to the shops with a list of bits to buy, no doubt!
Cheers
Chris
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