laptop specs?

[Pete Presland]

hi all

i have found my daughters old laptop from a few years back its a dell latitude c family specs -

Pentium 111 495 MHz processor

512mb ram

is this going to be any use for webcam imaging (planetary) i wondered whether it would compress the files?

thanks Pete

[philhas]

Sounds like it may be a bit long in the tooth to get any decent frame rates out of it, it's worth giving it a try using Sharpcap.

[Pete Presland]

thats what i thought,i hoped it might be ok to leave out there in the obsy just for the capturing of images and process indoors on the house pc

[Leedsgreen]

Hi Pete,

Quite similar to you, I have an old Toshiba laptop with similar specs. It's really slow booting up but once there it works like a charm with my SPC900NC webcam for imaging. The screen is quite big (15") and resolution low, which makes the image much bigger than on my new laptop (and therefore easier to focus). The laptop only offers USB1 but as this is matched by the webcam it's no problem. Of course, it couldn't go anyhigher than 10fps. However, being an old chap it does still have serial and parallel ports, ideal for long exposure webcam imaging!

Nick

[Pete Presland]

i had a reminder last night why i wasn't using it,it will not run wxastrocapture.what capture program are you using?

[Leedsgreen]

Wxastrocapture! Mmmmm, have you tried Sharpcap? I beleive that is good and also offers long exposure mode if needed.

Nick

[Pete Presland]

Wxastrocapture! Mmmmm, have you tried Sharpcap? I beleive that is good and also offers long exposure mode if needed.

Nick

sharpcap does seem popular i will have to give it a go,is there any windows xp conflicts?