Last image from 3rd Jan 09

[Deneb]

Taken with a Philips SPC900NC Webcam & a 2x Barlow fitted on a Skymax 127 @ 10fps

[Sam]

That looks pretty good . I reckon you could probably take the frame rate up to 15 or 20

[michaelmorris]

That looks pretty good . I reckon you could probably take the frame rate up to 15 or 20

Personally, I've always found that with a Toucam that any frame rate faster than 10fps tends to introduce so many compression artefacts that it alweays results in a net loss of resolution.

Below is a picture of different rates of image compresssion at a range of frame rates for an ATIK camera. These are based on the same chip as the Toucam/SPC so I'm guseeing they effects will be similar.

(I'm afraid I can't remember where I got this picture from, so my apologies in advance for not acknowledging the author)

[Andrew*]

I always keep my Atik webcams (1HS and 2HS) set to 5 fps as anything higher results in quite poor images.

Nice images, Deneb!

Andrew