The nice thing about my HD camcorder set-up is that the image is visible in real time on a monitor. I currently have a 7" LCD color monitor that I use for this purpose but am pricing larger ones. It works very well for planetary imaging, as well as lunar and solar- also some of the brighter DSO's, such as M42, when coupled to a large-aperture scope and configured for a low-light target. Great for group viewing. Also, as I mentioned, individual frames can be grabbed and stored for stacking and further processing, without dedicated frame-grab software. On Tue, Apr 13, 2010 at 11:00 PM, Patrick Wiggins <paw@wirelessbeehive.com>wrote:
I brought this up at this evening's SLAS board meeting.
The plan is to open the refractor early on public star party evenings to do a bit of Sun viewing. If the lines are not too long we could try a bit of imaging.
SLAS may also open the refractor one Saturday afternoon per month for members and guests. For dates and times SLAS members should logon to the SLAS website and check the calendar of events.
And for those SLAS members wanting to try some serious solar imaging special solar imaging sessions can also be scheduled. Those need to be scheduled through those who are authorized to use the Daystar filter (I think that's currently Bruce Grim, Roger Butz and me with Dave Bernson and Rodger Fry being added to the list soon).