Arzachel - First session with a Canon 60D

[Peter_D]

I bought a used Canon 60D and I had a quick session with it last night:  A Celestron C6 on a unpowered Vixen GP mount. I was really impressed with the clarity in the video crop mode even though the sky was still quite bright with intermittent wispy cloud. Focusing on the crater Arzachel, I took a short video (14 seconds), sat down today and worked with it using PIPP and Registax 6. I know the results look pretty bad compared to the images I have seen in this section so far but for me, the Canon is an absolute game changer - I was imaging with a smartphone up until now. I've included a grab from the video and the processed image. Thanks for looking!

[MarkAR]

Well done.

[nfotis]

That sounds about 350 HD frames. 

I think that if you select ALL-I frames in the video encoding, you should get a much higher quality video (this is essentially uncrompressed HD video, which should be well suited to stacking?)

 

N.F.

 

[maw lod qan]

The detail in your second image is very nice.

But then I do have a soft spot for the Moon!0

[Peter_D]

Thanks for the tip and the comments! I haven't had too many opportunities to use the camera recently - but I was able to capture Copernicus and Clavius. The seeing was excellent for the latter.

[nfotis]

Looks good, did you try the ALL-I video option?

I hope that it made  a difference when stacking.

N.F.

 

[Peter_D]

1 hour ago, nfotis said:

Looks good, did you try the ALL-I video option?

I hope that it made  a difference when stacking.

N.F.

 

Hi, 

No, the two images are from last lunar cycle - am looking forward to using your advice, thanks again!

CS

Peter

[Peter_D]

15 hours ago, nfotis said:

Looks good, did you try the ALL-I video option?

I hope that it made  a difference when stacking.

N.F.

 

Hi, 

I had a look at the video settings on the 60D - there is no option to record video in ALL-I or Raw mode. I did a Google search and it seems people used Magic Lantern to create Raw video - I'll have to research this further.

Thanks again

Peter

[nfotis]

The movie formats are a bit 'hidden' - you power up your camera, switch to video mode, then you press the 'Q' button for entering the video-centric options via the 'menu' button.

 

https://support.usa.canon.com/kb/index?page=content&id=ART116408

More details about the options here:

http://theherrintons.com/setting-canon-dslr-shoot-video/

 

Hope this helps,

N.F.