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Old 11-07-2005, 10:17 PM
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Thanks Paul,
It sounds like I am going to need tracking of some sort.
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Old 11-07-2005, 10:21 PM
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Go for the tracking Ken. I think Mike put himself through enough Masochism for all of us. Mind you he does an extremely fine job of it as you can see by his images
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Old 11-07-2005, 10:24 PM
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Say I got a TouCam and Adaptor for $190 + $12 postage, won't I need a program to run it. The nexImage shows a CDrom with theirs.
You can use K3ccdtools for capturing the avi's and then Registax for aligning and stacking. You can try these programs out when you get your camera.

http://www.pk3.org/K3CCDTools/

http://registax.astronomy.net/index.html
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Old 11-07-2005, 10:31 PM
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Can I go to any Computer store to get a TouCam? or does someone specialise in them.
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Old 11-07-2005, 10:34 PM
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You can get the camera from computer stores but getting the 1.25 adapter is a different story. You can get both or just the adapter if you can get the ToUcam cheaper here...http://www.telescopes-astronomy.com.au/
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I dont think you can go to any computer place and pick them up.
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Old 11-07-2005, 10:43 PM
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You're certainly right there Ed. Just did a bit of a search and only came up with half a dozen outlets that weren't astronomy related. And the couple of them I checked weren't any cheaper than the above link.
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Old 11-07-2005, 10:46 PM
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I think astronomy and telescopes are the way to go.
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Old 11-07-2005, 10:49 PM
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Their Area Code is 08. I wonder where they are. Probably selling online only as I couldn't find an address.
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Old 11-07-2005, 10:53 PM
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South Austraila, that's all I know.
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You need to email them Ken here telescopes@adam.com.au
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Old 11-07-2005, 11:02 PM
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Thanks Paul & Ed. I'll have to ring them on the number they give. I can't use my email.
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Old 12-07-2005, 02:57 AM
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I was going down this road 2 days ago ken. My biggest problem was getting my computer to the darn telescope! I just cant imagine me lumping my desk top puter out side in the dew every time I wanna take photo's! Cant afford a lap top so I had to forget all about that idea. Oh well.
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Old 12-07-2005, 03:36 AM
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So what does everyone do to take pics with this kind of camera??

Take your desktop puter outside?

Buy a second desktop puter?

Buy a laptop?
Now if you could just take the pics using it's own power supply & THEN take the camera in to the puter & download the pics.....I'd BE IN IT!
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The ToUcam and NexImage are almost identical, so it's up to you which one you get. You will still need a capture program like k3ccdtools, and a processing program like registax.

Telescopes-astronomy is the best place to get the ToUcam + adapter. I'd ring rather than email, cause he gets very busy. If you get the NexImage, just get it from the cheapest place you find.

If you plan on using your dob, you'd better read my article, Astrophotography with a dob, and be prepared for some frustration and steep learning curve. If you've got tracking, the frustration is much less but there's still a lot to learn about capturing and processing. My article deals with both and can be useful even if you do have tracking.

You will need a laptop, or drag your desktop outside. Unless you have perfect polar alignment and goto, with a motorised focuser that you can control remotely, and can leave your scope unattended, then you need to be next to your telescope and you need to be next to your computer.

Final note, these webcams (NexImage/ToUcam/LPI etc) will not work on DSO's, and do not brighten dim objects for you to view. They work only for planets and the moon and bright stars. You won't be able to use it for DSOs at all.

Hope that helps.
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[QUOTE=iceman]
Final note, these webcams (NexImage/ToUcam/LPI etc) will not work on DSO's, and do not brighten dim objects for you to view. They work only for planets and the moon and bright stars. You won't be able to use it for DSOs at all.QUOTE]



The Toucam can be modified to do long exposures but at a extra cost.
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Old 12-07-2005, 08:15 PM
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Thanks Mike. That helps a bit more. Tough decisions to make.
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