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Originally Posted by rumples riot
Anthony, I can think when the 640x480 will not accomodate a planet. When I have a 5x in with the lx200 10" Jupiter was so big that it would not fit inside the screen. The image was 5inches wide. Largest I have ever seen Jupiter.
In regard to the camera, that is not quite what I meant. I meant when you see the image on the screen does it look better to you when doing your AVI's. Yes your images are good but I cannot say that the images are better than your images early this year. They look smoother to me. What I was looking for your impressions.
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Not quite sure what you're looking for here Paul - to me the end result is what I am after, if that means pushing the camera to the limit so that the live data looks very dim and noisy then that is what I will do.
It's also a bit early to comment on how the new cameras are working out, I have 1 mars image and 1 saturn image so far - that's only 2 images to compare to the 20 or 30 images taken earlier this year with the 7-bit fire-i camera.
For the mars image from Snake Valley I was using exposure times around 18ms for the red channel, that would have been impossible to do with the fire-i because it did not allow me to set exposures to anything less than 33ms, but even at 33ms the fire-i was extremely noisy. All the Jupiter images earlier this year were done with the fire-i working at exposures of 40ms (25fps). I'm hoping next year with the new gear to make a large improvement on that but I don't know how it will work out until I try - we should have this conversation again in about April.
But my impresions are very simple - the new breed of fast 16bpp monochrome cameras leave the old cameras for dead :-)
regards, Bird