Nice shots Paul, you have been lucky lately. We have either had cloud cover, or lousy seeing. I have had a couple of cracks, but nothing to write home about (or post).
Plus it is what I term the "Dull side of Mars".
Keep at it,
Gary
Matt the usual settings are 10fps, gamma 0, saturation 95%, gain 10%, 1/33 of second and brightness 50%.
Mike I thought the same with the clouds over Tharis. Was happy to see that on the AVI as I was taking it. Looking forward to better seeing up in the Flinders next week.
H0ughy, the conditions did get slightly better but not enough to say that it was a 5/10. Still both images look reasonable in the cold light of day.
hey paul, does your avi capturing software give you the raw image in b/w or colour for focussing and exposure tinkering, or do you need to convert to colour and then check histograms and the avi?
David K3ccdtools gives me the colour version to focus with and I just take the Avi. No conversions done.
Here is another shot from last night. This time it is with a 5x Powermate. I would not normally post this, but this will give you an idea of the image scale that I can get with the LX200. I need exceptional seeing to use this piece of equipment. The seeing last night was not up to scratch, but just wanted to show you all.
Do you have to do any setting changes to K3CCD to display the raw images in colour or does it recognise the raw colour mod for the toucam automatically?
David Jupiter with the 5x powermate is bigger than the 640 x480 imaging pane. It gets very large and hard to work with. All my best Jupiter shots were taken with the 2.5x powermate.
