I took the attched frame from a vid I shot last night with a Toucam. I simply picked out a spot in the sky with my scope, plugged in and adjusted the webcam and started recording. The area of the sky that I picked up on was about 120 degrees in azimuth and ~ 40 degrees altitude from my position.
When I processed the vid into individual frames and used Paint Shop Pro to (only) adjust brightness and contrast, I noted what I hope appears in the attached shot - stars/objects of various colors, mainly white, blue and red.
What do the differences in colors mean in terms of the object(s)??
Difficult to comment without seeing other frames from the video. My first impression is hot pixels in the camera rather than star images. A 1/60 sec exposure generally shows very few stars and I would have expected to see larger images if it were a star.
Do you have similar frames? have you stacked say 20 + do they show a "build up" of star images??
Thanks for the suggestion - I've attached a stacked jpg composed of about 25 images...if I reemmber correctly, I had exposure time set at about 1/25 sec last night when the vid was taken.
I'm assuming it's a standard webcam set-up, no long exposure mods. The dark bands at the edges... maybe due to registration between the images, but I still see a "dark" frame of hot pixels which have now been added to make them brighter!!! Take a proper dark frame ( cover the lens) and see if it looks similar. When this is subtracted from your exposure, what ever is left should be an image of the sky.
I think the std webcam is very limited for general sky shots, maybe someone else can comment.
