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Old 12-06-2010, 12:04 AM
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Doodles23 (Dave Bleser)
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Saturn June 10th Flea3 first light

The Flea3 has landed in Miami folks. I only had to wait 2 weeks to get a clear night to use it. You can see the red movie used to make the first photo here http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IrPdIkBxH3Q

The second photo seems to show the storm trail but I'm going to wait for confirmation by Bird for that assertion. The frame rate for the 2nd photo is only 7.5 fps. Capture was accomplished on my MacBook (only firewire 400 though) using Astro IIDC software. This software is not capable of pushing the gain beyond 24 db. I am trying, without success, to get the developer of Astro IIDC to modify the software for more gain.

As it stands the resolution of the image is .12 sec/pixel.
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