Lunar with Xbox 360 Live Vision camera

[Aussie Dave]

Testing an Xbox 360 Live Vision camera with lens removed on the Tasco 17TR 80mm frac.

Camera used with AMCap and screenshots taken from the small avi movies and processed in PaintDotNet.

[baggywrinkle]

That is quite impressive.

[michael.h.f.wilkinson]

Very nice results indeed

[Aussie Dave]

Just a little update. I managed to get a couple of successful stax in RS6, finished in Paint. I didn't think I would get a decent alignment or stack with a non tracking mount but apparently you can in Registax. Some of the avi movies it could deal with but most it couldn't.

19 frames

6 frames. I must of had better focus with this clip, best of the bunch

[laudropb]

Lovely set of lunar images. Just shows what can be done without having to empty the bank account.

[Astro Imp]

Some very impressive work there Dave, well done.

[knobby]

nice !

[Aussie Dave]

Thanks all. Last update for this.

Last night I tested the Xbox 360 Live Vision cam with the Celestron Nexstar 8i after removing the cams IR filter. Atmospheric turbulence was quite bad but RS6 managed to pull out 52 frames from the best avi video for the night, 10% seemed to work well but no more, finished in Paint.

I tried not to over process this time, image is still soft due to conditions. I'm hoping to get much better results from this cam. Cam is running at full res 1280 x 960 video, processed and then cropped and resized to keep the image at a reasonable sharpness level.

[happy-kat]

Have you tried it not at full res?

Only won't full res be generating compression noise as it tries to save the frames?

[Aussie Dave]

No I haven't tried it at a lower resolution happy-kat and yes, getting a bit of noise.

I thought I'd push it to it's limits to see what it can do. I'm not sure but I don't think these cams should be capturing full res in video mode.

[happy-kat]

Look forward to your continued testing and see what the lower res options might enable for you.

[Ruud]

Hi Dave. You're showing some really good images here. Very promising!

[Aussie Dave]

Hi Ruud. Promising yes but I'd like to do much better. Can't expect much from these cheap cams and these hot Summer conditions that have hit us, happy with what I've got so far.

I don't know where to go from here in imaging, been thinking about this for a while now.