Widefield Toucam & Desire-1st attempts

[sheeny (Al)]

Well done, Ken!

I too am keen to get into some wide field shots with the ToUcam. I have a Mogg adapter so I can put all my Olympus OM lenses on the ToUcam and piggy back them on the scope.

Did you just use the standard ToUcam lens to capture these images?

Al.

[davidpretorius]

well done ken!!!

dark frame are something i am working on too. With the scope it is easy, you put the telescope end cap on so no light comes through and you then take a long exposure of darkness (5 or 10 seconds, whatever you will be taking with your stars). The blue and red pixels should still show up and you can then subtract them in photoshop from your star image..

It is a field of study all in itself.

I will be doing some wide field with mine attached to the tracking dob.

It is so much fun!!!

[ballaratdragons (Ken)]

Thanks Davo. We never stop learning, do we! Good stuff all this imaging!

Originally Posted by sheeny

Well done, Ken!

I too am keen to get into some wide field shots with the ToUcam. I have a Mogg adapter so I can put all my Olympus OM lenses on the ToUcam and piggy back them on the scope.

Did you just use the standard ToUcam lens to capture these images?

Al.

Yep! I took the 1 1/4" adaptor off and just used the little chromed lense that comes standard with the Toucam. I attached the little flexible legged tripod and pointed roughly in the area I wanted to image!