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Old 15-07-2008, 12:49 PM
tornado33
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Antares fades into the moon video

Hi
I used my Q guider cam to video the dissapearance of Antares. I expected it to blink out, but it didnt, it faded away slower. Antares is a red giant and has a bigger angular size than many stars seen from Earth, that would explain why. I was using 1 millisecond exposures and only a small part of the chip, so the frame rate would be nearly 1000 fps. This is in real time, note how it fades, not immediately blinks out
File is here, a zipped compressed .avi file only 20kb in size
http://www.iceinspace.com.au/uploads/antares.zip
Scott

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