The July 2009 issue of the A.L.P.O. Lunar Section's monthly newsletter, The Lunar Observer, has been uploaded to: http://moon.scopesandscapes.com/tlo.pdf A new...
Yea I had posted a while ago a post using the toucam drivers for vista, they work fine with my neximage and 32 bit vista. I'll look when i get home to see if...
Hi to all,my name is Fernando,and my camera stopped to receive images,but it seems that the ccd can't transmit the image.The Amcap program show only a image...
the most important thing i was told was to make sure the computer has an extensive memory capability and plenty of storage space.. also when you buy your...
I've had some trouble running two webcams off the same USB hub with WinXp and other problems running two webcams at all with Vista. In both cases, the camera...
Stephen,thanks for the help and interest,I'm gonna try to follow your advices,first changing the USB hub,I use a DSI at the same hub, and try Virtualdub to see...
The August 2009 issue of the A.L.P.O. Lunar Section's monthly newsletter, The Lunar Observer, has been uploaded to: http://moon.scopesandscapes.com/tlo.pdf ...
I'm cross posting this on both the cloudy nights forum and here: I finally had a chance to try my NexImage a little bit tonight, and ran into a couple of...
don't run amcap on auto for astro work. the reason you lost the image when panning is either because you hit a much darker or lighter spot-when this happens...
Hi, I had the same problems with jupiter, unfortunately it's only viewable from my location for about half an hour. One thing I'm going to try next time is a...
Hi, I also use AMCAP. I've never encountered this exact situation, especially the reactivation part after repanning over the area where the image went dead...
Try K3CCDTools. It can do a lot more than just capture. It can do stacking, aligning, histogram stretching, desharp, culling of bad frames, etc. It has a ton...
Hi, On the night of thursday to friday, july 30 to 31, the impact spot on Jupiter passed at the planet's meridian at 2 AM local time (6 UT). We have been...
Great job as usual Monti! The weather in North Carolina has been pretty cloudy too. Glad you have patience. BJ.. Bruce Johnson From: neximage@yahoogroups.com...
I agree that the "Auto" setting is not appropirate for astronomy. Often you will want to fine tune the gain and exposure to bring out subtle features -...
... I wasn't intending to use the "auto" setting to do my imaging, but it was the only way I seemed to be able to get anything to show up in "preview" mode....
Max: Try this link ... lots of information ... http://www.cloudynights.com/item.php?item_id=1044 I thought maybe Stark Labs "Nebulosity" product (Mac version)...
Here is what Macam supports ... http://webcam-osx.sourceforge.net/cameras/index.php It includes a lot of Philips webcams. The Neximage has the same IC's as one...
Try this as well ... http://www.ioxperts.com/devices/webcam.html I'm procrastinating in the astronomy groups. I better get back to work now. :-\ - Leonard ......
Hi, I was cleaning up my e-mail when I looked at this post again, and the comment by Jim that simply going from a bright to a dark region of the Moon could...
Hello All, I'm learning about astrophotography using both my DSLR for wide field shots and my NexImage for planetary. Using my DSLR and taking flats I can get...
Hi Stephen, Here are a few question regarding Virtualdub. I basically use AMCAP to capture avis, but also use Virtualdub to process the avis once they are...
Actually I don't know how "new" it is, but it's new to me .... http://arnholm.org/astro/software/wxAstroCapture/ It works with Philips-like webcams, so it...