View and Download Sapido Gr1100 user manual online. G NES Mini Server. Gr1100 Network Router pdf manual download. Astronomy images made with modified webcams and an amateur telescope. A DMK21AU04 was used for the latest planetary images everything after 16th June 2009. Versin en espaol de este artculo. Controlling TWAIN devices from within Visual FoxPro Need to drive a scanner or video camera from inside your VFP application Select country Global English. Koninklijke Philips N. V., 2004 2017. All rights reserved. Review and pay your bill, signup to pay your bill automatically, check your email, and see the latest upgrade offers and deals. Signin to My Verizon today The roll off roof observatory in my back garden houses my Paramount ME Mk4000 mount, my Toscano 8 inch RC, William Optics FLT 110 and. Webcam Astrophotography Tutorial for Planets. Webcam Astrophotography Tutorial for Planetsby Ray Shore. September 2. 5th, 2. Updated February 2nd, 2. Hello My tutorial is based on the popular Philips To. Ucam Pro 7. 40. K which was discontinued along with its predecessors the Philips To. Ucam 8. 40. K and the SPC9. NC. All three of these cameras have produced outstanding images of the planets. Now it appears that the original Celestron Nex. Image has been discontinued as well. However, Celestron has recently come out with a 5. MP Neximage that is available Celestron Nex. Image 5. MP Solar System Imager Telescope Camera 9. Although, now I use the ZWO ASI1. MM camera for astrophotography of the planets. See my review and tutorial of the ZWO ASI1. MM here. Windows 7 users the driver for the original Neximage is not compatible with Windows 7. Fortunately, the Philips SPC9. Jupiter May 15th, 2005 Jupiter December 1st, 2013 This represents my best work the Philips ToUcam Pro 740K and 8 Celestron SCT. This image is from my second. If you ever use Window XP Webcam, you probably know that you can view the webcam under My Computer, without any application or webcam software. Magix Video Easy Terratec Download Games there. B. B. A. R. Cargolift B B Electronics Manufacturing Company B D B G B K Pro B K Components B K Manufacturing Company DynaQuik. Toucam Pro Software' title='Toucam Pro Software' />NC driver supports Windows 7 and works with the Nex. Image. Click here for instructions. Webcam Astrophotography Tutorial for Planets starts below. Teamviewer 7 Serial Nod32 on this page. Introduction. This webcam astrophotography tutorial is intended to explain my method for obtaining the planetary images found in my solar system image gallery. I hope it will be useful to those who are just starting out in astrophotography with a webcam. Below are a few of my favorite astrophotos that I have taken using my telescope and webcam. Click on thumbnails to view full size photo. Incredible detail can be obtained with todays imaging techniques and software. How to make a webcam work in infra red Get Spark of Genius on Android Its nothing to do with this page, other than I wrote it. The camera The camera used for this. I hope to demonstrate how this is done on a basic level in my webcam astrophotography instructions below. First though, I will start with the setup I use for astrophotography of planets. My Astrophotography Equipmenta Telescope. The telescope I use is an 8 Celestron Schmidt Cassegrain Telescope SCT. Heres the details Mount CG5 Aperture 8 2. Focal Ratio f1. Focal Length 2. Highest Useful Magnification 4. XResolution. 5. Home built pier. Accessories include a Telrad viewfinder, JMI zero image shift microfocuser, Celestron 6. X3. 0 viewfinder, RA and DEC motor drives, and dew shield. Further Resources. Telescope Optics Calculations. Orion Telescopes and Binocularsb Camera. The camera I use for planetary astrophotography is a Philips To. Ucam Pro 7. 40. K. Its basically an upper end computer webcam. Heres the details Philips To. Ucam Pro 7. 40. KMax resolution 6. Max frame rate 6. Sensor CCDThis one is a very popular camera for astrophotography. However, Celestron and Meade have their own version as well. They are designed specifically for Astrophotography. Also see my Digital SLR Astrophotography Tutorial Back to Top Philips To. Ucam Pro 7. 40. K 3. Attaching the Webcam to the Telescope Added June 2nd, 2. Due to a number of requests, I added instructions for attaching the To. Ucam to the telescope. To. Ucam with original lens attached. This lens is not used. This is a threaded lens and is simply unscrewed from the webcam. Webcam adapter Mogg Adapter is then screwed into the webcam where the original lens was located. Here is the Mogg Adapter inserted into To. Ucam. It is now ready to attach to telescope. To. Ucam is inserted the same way as an eyepiece into the telescope eyepiece holder or Barlow as shown. Note that an eyepiece is not used. Back to Top 4. Registax  Software. The method for obtaining high resolution images of the planets actually starts with a video taken with the webcam. The video is then processed in a freeware program called Registax  by Cor Berrevoets and results in a stacked image of several hundred frames. This will all be explained in detail later in this article. The Registax download can be found at http registax. Back to Top 5. Finding the Planet Through the Webcam webcam astrophotography method starts hereThe first step can be the most tricky part of it all It is necessary to precisely center the planet in a relatively high power eyepiece. This must be done before switching to the webcam. Here are the steps involved Insert 2. X Barlow lens. Webcam is not inserted yet. Insert 3. 2mm eyepiece for a low power, wide field of view. Adjust RA and DEC until the planet is as close to center as possible. Carefully switch to the higher power eyepiece. I use a 1. 0mm Plossl for this. This gives me about 4. X magnification which is close to my highest useful magnification. Center the planet and make sure it holds its position. A good polar alignment helps a lot here Very carefully, switch to the webcam i. Open the webcam software program. In my case, I use Spotlife which came with my Philips To. Ucam Pro 7. 40. K. It was on the installation CD. The installation CD contents can be downloaded at the Philips site here. Click on the file file pcvc. Installation CD Content section. After unzipping the contents, there is a folder named Spotlife that has the executable file for this program within each language folder. If the planet is not visible on the screen, it is usually due to 1 of 3 things gain setting is too low, the planet is not centered normally the case, or the telescope is WAY out of focus. Gain Setting. One time I got frustrated because I could not get Saturn to show up on the screen. I was certain that it was centered well enough in the eyepiece. After quite a few minutes I decided to turn up the gain. Saturn was right there the whole time So the best thing to try first is to turn up the gain. This is done in the webcam settings. I usually turn the gain up to about 7. Center in Eyepiece Again. This is normally the case. If the planet is still not visible, then follow the steps above again to center the planet. Normally its just a matter of getting the planet centered in the webcam field of view. This was difficult when I first started using a webcam, but became MUCH easier with practice Focus. When all else fails, check the focus. Its possible although unusual for the image to be so far out of focus that its too dim to detect. When the planet is in focus through my 1. I can easily make the adjustments once the planet is centered on the screen. Here is a screenshot of what it looks like Back to Top 6. Webcam Adjustments. Once the planet is centered on the screen, then it is time to make some adjustments to the webcam. First, I adjust the shutter speed and gain. To obtain the best quality, I normally select a shutter speed of 12. Mars. I normally set the gain below 5. It is important to keep the gain as low as possible but still see the detail. Otherwise, the finer details will be over exposed. See screenshot below for typical settings Another important setting is the frame rate. The frame rate is directly related to image quality. Normally, I use a frame rate of 5 fps frames per second or 1. Basically, 5 fps yields a higher resolution frame than 1. However, by using 1. I can obtain more frames to stack in a given time period. Otherwise, I use 1. Heres what the setting looks like Back to Top 7. Capturing the Video. I normally take a 3 4 minute video AVI of the planets. This will yield hundreds of frames from which to stack stacking process will be discussed later in the article. For example, if I take a 3 minute video at 1. I will end up with 1. To a certain extent, the more frames available for stacking, the better the detail possible. It is important to note that there is a point where the detail will become blurred due to planet rotation. This is especially the case with Jupiter and its 1. Thus, I limit my videos to about a 4 minute maximum recording time. As explained later, not all of the 1.