What I've been working on is using my high-def hard-drive video camcorder coupled afocally. The camera captures full HD video (approximately 2 megapixel resolution, not too bad) and also allows you to manually grab individual frames for stacking and manipulation. I'd be very interested in sun parties at SPOC, Patrick. Situated as it is, next to water and grassy areas, it is much better suited to solar observation than the usual valley locations. I'd even be interested in Saturday morning sun parties, when the seeing is better. On Fri, Apr 9, 2010 at 5:55 PM, Patrick Wiggins <paw@wirelessbeehive.com>wrote:
Hi Tyler,
Glad to hear you are interested. I'm still trying to get acceptable results with a DSLR but as with most solar system objects, I'm hearing the best way to go is with something that will take a whole slew of images and then let software pick the best. Sounds like what you've got fits the bill.