Jupiter, Ganymedes and Io (barely) with RPi Cam

[wimvb]

For a while I've been playing with the idea of hooking up a Raspberry Pi camera to my scope. But cloudy nights have stood in the way of this. Besides, I didn't want to waste good clear skies for playing around. So now that nights have become too bright for any decent imaging, I had a go last night.

Conditions this weekend were horrible: clouds, wind, rain, hail and snow all  within two days; but last night there was a clearish patch. Luckily the full moon hadn't made its appearance yet.

So here's a clip of Jupiter with two of its moons Ganymedes and Io (still partly obscured by Jupiter)

vi_0005_20160424_223738.mp4

(BTW, never tried inserting a movie clip before, hope it works)

Raspberry Pi NoIR camera, with SW 150P on EQ3-2 GoTo mount, controlled from my smartphone

Software: RPi_Cam_Web_Interface (http://elinux.org/RPi-Cam-Web-Interface)

Conclusions: unless I find a way to get decent stills from this camera, I will most likely not repeat this experiment.

[Pete Presland]

Worked very well, Io showing quite nicely.

[michael.h.f.wilkinson]

Nice capture

 

[wimvb]

Thanks!

The camera and software need tweaking in order to get good results, and I'm not sure if I want to invest a lot of time in this. It is a nice little camera, and I may use it as an electronic eyepiece, or mount it to the polar scope to make polar alignment easier (for my back).

[rodrigol]

Wow! Awesome avi!

This is what I was looking for a little while ago todo with my RPI. Do you mind if I take your AVI and play with it to see what stacking the frames can do?

 

[wimvb]

Feel free to use it. But the video is MP4, not AVI, so you'll probably only get lossy JPEGs out of it. I also thought of trying other video formats in order to stack, but haven't had the time for that yet. Let me know in this thread if you succeed.

Good luck