paulyg

I just had to google the C14: That's a big beast! I'll stick to my dinky (and cheap) Mak127 for now

Just experimentation for the time being. The UK skies are devoid of good targets at the moment - my scope is very slow and my mount is Alt-Az so I'm pretty much limiting myself to planets and the moon. Many thanks for your help though.

You're right: cutting down to 320x240 does drastically improve things.

I'm using an ASI120MM at full resolution - I will try a lesser resolution (although I imagine that will drastically cut down the FOV)

I've just been trying oacapture 0.07 on my old atom based netbook (Samsung N210 running Xubuntu). Everything seems great in preview mode: I'm getting decent frame rates of around 10-20 FPS and the application itself looks great! However, once I attempt to write to an avi file, the number of dropped frames rises massively and I seem to be getting around 1 FPS or less on the output file. Interestingly, the preview still looks fine at this point. It seems like the disk can't keep up once data is being written. Does that sound right to you? I know the atom is underpowered, but I thought it would cope better than this. Is there any kind of logging I can enable to see what the chokepoint is here? Has anyone else had success using this kind of hardware? Paul