Keyhole

[jjjnettie (Jeanette)]

I had the 10" Dob out tonight and after a bit of observing I thought I'd plug the Gstar into it.
To capture, I just kept on realigning the scope and videoed the Keyhole as it drifted through the FOV. I did this gain and again. After editing with VirtualDubMod I ended up with 265 frames worth using.
Senseup had to be kept down low, 32x instead of the usual 128x, to try to eliminate star trails.
Cheers

[leon]

Jeanette, you do some amazing stuff with that little Camera of yours and the Dob, nicely captured indeed.

leon

[jase (Jason)]

Nice result Jeanette. Well done. Your acquisition technique reminds me of CCD drift scanning using the TDI functionality. You don't need an accurate mount (a rock or chair would do), simply let the object drift across the chip.

There is some good info on drift scanning available;
http://www.driftscan.com/index.htm
http://www.astrosurf.com/audine/English/result/scan.htm
http://www.sbig.com/pdffiles/drftscan.pdf

[Garyh]

Thats nice Jeanette!
You do so well with just the dob!

[AlexN]

wow... You're going to have to excuse my picking your brain at cambroon! Thats an incredible result with a dob!

Very impressive

[Ric]

Nice work Jeanette, lovely up close shot of the keyhole.

Well done

[Tamtarn]

Great work Jeanette. A lot of time and effort was needed to get this one with the dob

Well done

[[1ponders] (Paul)]

Nicely done Jeanette.