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Originally Posted by higginsdj
Hi Chris,
Are you/will you be displaying just what can be seen through the EP or integrated images of DSO etc?
We tried some time ago to show people on screen what we could see through the EP to reduce the queues but we found people preferred to look through the EP and the bright screen destroyed peoples night vision (lots of complaints) - but we were only using relatively small screens (ie Laptop screens)
Cheers
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Hi David. What I envisage is a properly boxed viewing screen with adequate red filter over the top on the edge of the observing area. I will use my SBIG to take quick 3x3 binned shots of objects such as NGC2070 and show them in real time after they download. I also found at our last public night a couple of weeks ago that at least half of our 300-odd visitors looked at my screen running Voyager to see where the object was in space relative to themselves. The kids and adults all loved it. There were 15 or so other scopes of varying sizes around for eyepiece viewing on the night.