Mars again

asimov (John) · #1 12-11-2005, 04:54 AM

Heres my first go with the toucam that turned up on the doorstep this afternoon. Hopefully I will get better at this.

RB (Andrew) · #2 12-11-2005, 05:09 AM

This guy just gets better and better.

Way to go Asi.
Well done mate.

It looks like the ultimate marble......

asimov (John) · #3 12-11-2005, 05:22 AM

LOL! Thanks RB & good mornin' to ya!.....I'm off to get saturn shortly. Wish I had another damn barlow I could shove on top of the one I'm using!!

.....NEXT purchase coming up!

RB (Andrew) · #4 12-11-2005, 05:54 AM

Good Morning Asimov,

I'm just burning a DVD full of my Mars avi's from last night/morning.
I hope they turn out ok.
I'll post once I process.

Good luck with Saturn.

I'm off to get some sleep

asimov (John) · #5 12-11-2005, 05:56 AM

Sleep tight mate.

davidpretorius · #6 13-11-2005, 12:49 AM

Well I am in 7th heaven!

two great mates are off and running with a toucam and computer. Sort of sums up IIS for me. They may not be bird quality yet, but Asimovs and Kens first toucam efforts have me smiling hard!!!!

Well done guys, glad to have been able to share in it & GAME ON for toucam piccies.!!!!

"you might of seen a dragonfly,
or even heard a lumera sigh,

but have you ever had a toucam high!!!!!"

ballaratdragons (Ken) · #7 13-11-2005, 12:57 AM

AsiCam, Stunning Mate! I had cloud and could only get the Moon!

Thanks for guiding us through this Davo!

Now for the Image wars!!!!!

Touche . . no, TouCam!

bird (Anthony Wesley) · #8 13-11-2005, 01:40 AM

Well done Asi...the more of us imagers the better :-)

Bird

Robert_T · #9 13-11-2005, 06:51 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by davidpretorius

"you might of seen a dragonfly,
or even heard a lumera sigh,

but have you ever had a toucam high!!!!!"

love it!

planetary imaging poetry... can you work a "DMK firewire" in there somewhere too?

cheers,

asimov (John) · #10 13-11-2005, 09:07 AM

Lol Davo! And thank you for helping set me up with my new setup! Now to get good with this toucam & processing!! The lappy is doing it easy mate. As you know, I'm having to stack using registax V2 in 800X600 on the laptop, then transfer the final image to the main puter. Have to defrag the lappy regularly otherwise it drops too many frames too.

Was checking out the memory sticks the other day, & they make em' upto 2 Gig in size.

Not overly impressed with that mars image above, but not bad for the very first image with the toucam, so I'm STOKED in a way!!

bird (Anthony Wesley) · #11 13-11-2005, 09:55 AM

That's good stuff Asi - here for your amusement is the most ancient mars pic I can find, taken 2 days after getting my ToUCam in 2003...

Bird

asimov (John) · #12 13-11-2005, 10:13 AM

That's still a pretty good image Bird. Huge image scale...That done with a 5X barlow/powermate? I must look into one of those. Another cheap 2X APO barlow & stack might be the way to go also.

bird (Anthony Wesley) · #13 13-11-2005, 10:35 AM

I think it's taken with a meade "shorty" 2x barlow... I didn't get the 5x powermate for a couple of weks after the ToUcam.

Bird

matt · #14 13-11-2005, 11:10 AM

I'm struggling to get anything resembling image scale and let's not even begin to discuss surface detail

Here's what I'm using: 8" f/5 scope, 6mm eyepiece in 2X barlow...

afocal with digital camera optical zoom maxed out at 3x

I would have thought that would give me loads of image scale???

Can anyone suggest "what's wrong with this picture"