[mswhin63 (Malcolm)]

I was experimenting with my canon 450D as a replacement for CCD webcams or as a next step in AP, the result were very interesting.

Seeing was appauling, I think the High Pressure system over Perth created massive turbulence so the images I created were very difficult to obtain. I will try and put some animation of the seeing condition later.

Venus - I managed a quick try before it went behind the fence so I couldn't really capture many frames.
Jupiter - This was surprising the images I finally processed based on the images captured which looked quite horrible.
Moon Images - Again the seeing was causing the images to jump all over the place so it was really difficult to capture.

Venus, Jupiter and closeup moon captured using my Canon 450D with APT software in live view record mode. The interesting part is that in live view the series of images captured were 848 x 560 pixel. in x 1 the 10.2MP (wider moon images) are conveted to 848 x 560 but the close up where done using a 3 x Barlow and setting APT on X5 live view. So what was viewed for live recording was 2MP converted to 848 x 560. This is equivilent to a HD webcam or even better. This is not as good as some of the other specialise CCD but since using it I believe it is a good alternative to a webcam.

Running it in x5 dosen't loose all the quality. Running x 10 was imposible for me as I need to get the EQ platform running smoother before doing this.

Anyway the results for such poor condition was reasonable quality processed. Some images were well over processed but no other way around it on the seeing.

I couldn't load the Venus and jupiter images image through the normal methods, maybe too small - Will figure it out later and post them shortly.