Ron, Turn down the gain all the way. Then turn up brightness and slow down your exposure to compensate. That made the biggest difference in noise for me. BJ.....
Really searching. Sunday evening my wife came out and opened the steel door next to me, the scope, and computer. The image on the computer screen faded away to...
Hi, In response to John Strachan's enquiry about my remote setup, here are some details. I developped the setup to be able use my SC8 and do NI imaging in...
Thanks for that Monti, I didn't realise you could run the USB cables so far as I thought they had limited distance - but I presume the active extensions take...
First light with my new Neximage camera, yea! It's been a while since I could really do planetary imaging, I used to use a SAC7 which I got rid of several...
Not very good last night. Thought I had done a lot better as I was able to keep the gain all the way down and it looked better. Does anyone have the normal or...
It has a CMOS detector instead of a CCD, so is not as sensitive. It would be better to go with the Phillips SPC900NC (even if it is USB 1.1 instead of 2.0)....
I bought a spc1300nc but everyone said no good, so I brought it back and bought the spc900nc/27. Is this a better deal and does anyone know if its better than...
Don't think you'll find too many NexImage bashers in this group. :-> But seriously, somewhere down the line there will be a better astronomical webcam than...
The Phillips SPC900NC is the updated version of their ToUcam. The NexImage is a ToUcam clone. They all have the same CCD chip ( Sony ICX098QB CCD), and all run...
This forum is dedicated to the first web-cam imager from Celestron International. Mars rotation, by Monti. Photoshop composite. Pictures from 4 avis of 2500 to...
I'm sure my neximager is faulty,Ive owned it for several years and now I get nothing but flickering muticolored bands and stripes. I reinstalled software,tried...
Tom - Several folks on this group have reported that their NexImage has failed after a year or more. Mine had a problem, and Celestron replaced it, but it was...
Hi, Though I have still been imaging in my light-polluted city sky, I have started using the technique of stringing together large avis in order to exceed the...
ooops!... forgot the link again: http://tech.ph.groups.yahoo.com/group/neximage/photos/view/c0ac? b=16&m=f&o=0 I hope that works... it's in the photo album...
Well... that link wont work becaused its cut. So try this one to see the image at a reduced size, then you can click the "large" button to increase it. ...
Wow! That's beautiful! Nice contrast, nice focus, nice background level. Just floating out there, the way it really is. - Leonard ... From: imontam To:...
Thanks for the nice comments, Leonard. I really had little hope of producing a half-good image of Saturn before going out into the field under a real dark sky...
I never get a clear image on my computer. It always looks distorted or blurry. Shot some pics of a crisp clear moon last night but the computer screen showed a...
Is there a way to test the Neximage to see if its working properly by just using the computer not using the telescope? Maybe learning to focus the neximage...
Hi, Focussing can be a very frustrating thing to master. The first thing I would suggest is to make sure you reduce gain (also gamma) once you have acquired...
I have the gain and gamma down along with brightness but the image never shows where you can really focus. When I focus on the moon I have to focus on black...
Here is a link to a pic http://tech.ph.groups.yahoo.com/group/neximage/photos/view/52a7?b=1 ... can't ... the ... first ... gamma) ... you ... knob....
Hi, Just off the top of my head: Are you imaging in color? For the Moon, B/W might be better... you might be getting a lot of color noise. And what about your...
Hi, After posting my image of "Saturn and titan at 1500X". I received several comments regarding Titan. Many were surprised to see Titan imaged as anything...
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