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How To edit your guided avi movie and generate a new aligned avi movie. yes, the ISS bumps around the frame when hand-guiding. Programs I use on windoze XP ...
Jimmy Andrews
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Dec 1, 2008
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3499
Just started tracking with a Meade 12" RCX. pretty good results, sats are in the finder and tracking speed seems very good. However, in each case they are not...
Jason Ware
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Dec 2, 2008
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Why not just align and stack the AVI's, choosing only the frames you want from the framelist, right in RegiStax??? Why use bitmaps?? Derek [Non-text portions...
Derek C Breit
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Dec 2, 2008
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For the moon and planets, I agree with you, Registax works great. No problems. For a hand-guiding avi of the ISS. Not so great. Registax seems to have...
Jimmy Andrews
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Dec 2, 2008
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3502
Ah.. That makes sense.. Thanks.. Derek [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]...
Derek C Breit
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Dec 2, 2008
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3503
jason, others will know for sure, but the limited time i played with sat tracker, i found best results if i connected a joystick to the laptop or pc that...
bsshirkey
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Dec 2, 2008
11:42 am
3504
... tracker, i found best results if i connected a joystick to the laptop or pc that you're using. ... scope forward or backward, but not changing the actual...
Leo Taylor
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Dec 2, 2008
12:45 pm
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... Thank you Adam and Jimmy for documenting this procedure. I saved it for possible future reference. ... K3CCDTools 3 - Acquire and Capture video. WCCTRL -...
Leo Taylor
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Dec 2, 2008
12:59 pm
3506
Go to messages 3220 Read message 3220 through 3225 for information on how to center the ISS in your eyepiece. Jimmy...
Jimmy Andrews
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Dec 2, 2008
1:48 pm
3507
OK, I guess I misunderstood the offset, I though it controlled the tracking rates. I tried this already with a joystick and it seemed to overshoot and keep...
Jason Ware
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Dec 2, 2008
2:56 pm
3508
If it does overshoot, it will continue to be ahead/behind until you correct it. If it moves too much on joystick, reduce the offsets=increments on...
Björn Gimle
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Dec 2, 2008
3:08 pm
3509
Unfortunately the joystick control via SatTracker is extremely sluggish with the RCX400 and other Autostar II mounts, so it's very easy to overshoot. You can...
John Mahony
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Dec 2, 2008
4:44 pm
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... ST does that for the LX200 classic (and probably some other scopes). For the LX200GPS and other autostar II scopes, it controls the scope by sending speed...
John Mahony
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Dec 2, 2008
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Leo's response was unreadable (except as message source, or at http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/satellitetracker/message/3504) ... tracker, i found best...
Björn Gimle
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Dec 2, 2008
5:12 pm
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Often the ISS will move around on the chip so radically that aligning software has problems with it. They're designed for planets, where you only have to deal...
John Mahony
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Dec 2, 2008
5:24 pm
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But if http://spaceflight1.nasa.gov/realdata/sightings/SSapplications/Post/JavaSSOP/orbit/ISS/SVPOST.html shows a maneuvre between the time of the latest elset...
Bjoern Gimle@GlocalNet
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Dec 3, 2008
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http://www.cloudynights.com/ubbthreads/showflat.php/Cat/0/Number/2544487/page/0/view/collapsed/sb/5/o/all/fpart/1/vc/1 A generaor to design one the size you...
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Dec 3, 2008
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Thanks for the ideas! When I've hand-guided the ISS, I've used a little thing called "AVI2BMP" to remove the good from the bad and save just the good frames as...
Tom Gwilym
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Dec 3, 2008
5:23 pm
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Very good detail Tom! Your doing what I dream of, and then I wake up. I started using VirtualDub and PCFE this last weekend, both are freeware and great...
Jimmy Andrews
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Dec 3, 2008
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... My (very) old copy of Photoshop v5.5 can create/edit .gif animations. But there are probably other options more suited for our use. -John...
John Mahony
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Dec 3, 2008
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I just checked VirtualDub (freeware from sourceforge.net) and it will generate an animated gif from an avi with only these 3 options: Play once, Infinite loop,...
Jimmy Andrews
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Dec 3, 2008
8:57 pm
3519
1) Select the frames showing the station autmatically with K3CCD. 2) Recenter the frames with Registax, you can easily save the result as an avi using the same...
Hartwig Luethen
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Dec 3, 2008
11:52 pm
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Hi all, Gilbert Grillot and myself have created a software to answer this technical problem ! Download Starmax ! http://ggrillot.free.fr/astro/starmax.html ...
sweiller
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Dec 4, 2008
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Thanks Sylvain I had problems with the web page at first until I clicked the flag at top of page which converted page to english. Downloaded starmax into a new...
Jimmy Andrews
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Dec 4, 2008
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Thanks! Most of the time here in Seattle, we are living in an astronomer's nightmare. The last YEAR has been horrible. Even in the summer. Whenever I do get...
Tom Gwilym
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Dec 4, 2008
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Hi Jimmy, I see you are an experimented user ! Your procedure is perfect ! Well done ! We shall rework asap on Starmax and try to eliminate said frame number...
sweiller
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Dec 4, 2008
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I shortened the filenames from YYYYMMDD-HHMM-0000.bmp to 0000.bmp through 3517.bmp Tried to load all 3518 bmp's but load error at 2978.bmp Jimmy...
Jimmy Andrews
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Dec 5, 2008
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I have a 3500 frame 1.6GB (4 minutes play time) avi. Avi was recorded with Philips VRecord Vlounge and WcCtrl using a ToUcam840K. I'm trying write up a...
Jimmy Andrews
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Dec 5, 2008
7:09 pm
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I found this site that will allow anyone to send up to a 1GB file. Others can download the file for viewing or post-processing. ...
Jimmy Andrews
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Dec 6, 2008
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OH Hell no.. Do NOT send a large file to this group in a manner that will land in my email... Hopefully that is not what you meant.. Derek [Non-text portions...
Derek C Breit
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