Re: Taking and stacking Video of the moon
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That's great. I'm impressed you got the point and shoot to work on the adapter, lots of people have struggled with those to be able to get the picture in focus without the AF messing things up. :) I like using my smartphone and normally do movie to PIPP to Autostakkert. I don't remember if Fuji has a Magic Lantern port for the camera -- someone presented at RASC about 5 years ago (perhaps Taras?) where they were showing?that you could load Magic Lantern on the point and shoot camera and give yourself a lot more control over the functions of the camera (making it easier to modify ISO, etc.) even when the camera itself didn't give you those options in the traditional menus. I tried it on a Canon which was decent.
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On Thu, Dec 16, 2021 at 10:44 AM InQ < inq@...> wrote: I am already aware of the quality of imagers here, but they also serve as inspiration. Kinda why I got into moon pics :). I have never shot video through a telescope and processed images from them. I picked up a point and shoot, a FinePix XP140 mounted on one of those jigs that attaches to the eyepiece. I have been shooting 1080p at 59.94 fps, using a 110mm eyepiece on an old orange tube Celestron 8", with the camera zoomed to 5x. I put a helical focuser behind the eyepiece which helps me focus. The clock drive is good, and the tripod almost perfectly leveled and aligned. The video files are .MOV, and the almost 15 minutes video limit gives 4gb files. PIPP (Planetary Imaging PreProcessor) is used to whittle the files down to just over a gig which is the limit for some stackers. PIPP saves uncompressed AVIs. I have developed a liking for Planetary System Stacker which became my main stacker. Post processing done with one or more of ON1, Photoshop CS2, and Paintshop Pro 2021. The seeing was average for this, but there was a thin layer of cloud. Hoping for better skies soon.
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Clear Skies and dots for stars
InQ
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