Kepler and lots of cloud

[beamish]

tried to take advantage of a break in the cloud 2nite-areal pain ! Got this for my trouble,

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please feel free to be brutal

Karlo

[centroid]

Brutal, no!!, I think you have done justice to Mr Kepler there

Dave

[themos]

The pic resolution says 320x240. Did you mean to shoot it at that resolution?

[beamish]

You got me there Themos, TBH, I wasn't aware. Is that a good or a bad thing and how can I change it nxt time to improve?? I must admit I was a little disappointed in the final size of the image. It was one of the last AVI's of the evening b4 I had to give up due to cloud and rain, it was also one of the shortest AVI's and almost got trashed ! I'm certainly open to helpful comments so ..............

cheers to both yourself and Centroid !

[themos]

good or bad, I can't tell you right now. It may be that the ToUcam at 320x240 is capable of a higher frame rate (compared to a higher resolution) before it starts "compressing" (and deteriorating) the signal. I use K3CCDTools to capture and I set the camera to 640x480 and 5 fps capture rate. The 5 is the lowest setting which means I need more capture time than a setting of 10 or 20. On the other hand, it is the setting that guarantees me no compression.

[beamish]

So the setting re resolution I should find that in the K3 settings ? I intially tried 5fps last night but the res looked rough so opted for 10fps. I'll have a shufty on the laptop when I can, cheers.

[themos]

Yes, the resolution can be changed through some K3 menu, I can never remember which (the user interface on that thing is not optimal, IMHO). One thing that "gotchas" me is that the preview frame rate and the capture frame rate can be different. Experiment again and again until it actually does what you think it does.

[beamish]

Thanks for that Themos, I had suspected so much re the preview rate etc. If the clouds move off I might have another shot . I've included another view of the same image, played a little more with it.

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[beamish]

A BIG thank you Themos, it appears I'd stupidly left the K3tools dimensions on default ! THAT explains a great deal and I'm very grateful for pointing it out to me !!

Lets see if things can improve.

[themos]

We need to write up a primer for the K3 software. Or is there one already?

[beamish]

TBH I think there is one out there, I'll take a look later !, It was an oversight on my part really, last night I had a fright, having played with the settings, I'd also then left the webcam's digital zoom on and could figure out why I couldn't achieve focus All's well now ,Ta.

Karlo

[Starflyer]

Hi Karlo,

Lovely image, I think you brought out more detail in the second one you posted.

I used this primer from MarinB; http://stargazerslounge.com/index.php/topic,3523.0.html.

Cheers,

Ian

[beamish]

You must be telepathic !! I was actually just trying to source that when the notification came thru ! Cheers for the comments too .

Karlo