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Old 17-06-2009, 07:50 AM
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Originally Posted by Paul Haese View Post
Adrian,

try an exposure of say around 1/250 of a second if you are using the DSLR, with a webcam use K3ccdtools as your capture program. It has a freeware version, for stacking frames go with registax.

The DSLR is not really the right piece of kit for this particular job, but you could get something a lot better.

So in that vane, use low iso of 100, play around with the shutter but start at 1/250th of a second and work backwards until the image look exposed correctly. Don't worry if your image looks a little under exposed, you can do a histo stretch.
Thanks Paul I will try the settings you suggest and try again when this *&^&%$#$^ weather clears again. I will try the webcam but at the moment no matter what I buy I cannot seem to achieve focus with the webcam/ED127 setup (the one in my signature) it works if I put the original lens back on. I have tried the K3ccdtools program but I couldnt get it to run after about 10 days, trial licence expired so I never bothered with it again (I thought I downloaded freeware version).

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