RE: satellite observing success

From: Kevin Z Grey (kzgrey@ntplx.net)
Date: Mon Feb 23 2004 - 14:57:44 EST

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    Hi Kevin,
    
    	How wide is the field of view on that camera?  Has anyone
    successfully hooked up an SLR body/zoom lens with something like this?
    Perhaps with a Quickcam?  I've been contemplating how this would be done
    properly for a while, but I don't have the guts to tear apart one of my
    SLR's in the name of science without knowing whether it'll really work.
    
    ~~K
    
    -----Original Message-----
    From: Kevin Fetter [mailto:kfetter@yahoo.com] 
    Sent: Tuesday, February 17, 2004 1:24 AM
    To: SeeSat-L@satobs.org
    Subject: Re: satellite observing success
    
    I have put up the video showing a flash from TITAN 3A TRANSTAGE R/B (
    01369 )
    
    http://www.kfetter.100megs26.com/flashsat.mov
    
    It's in mpeg 4 format and should play using the apple quicktime player.
    
    http://www.apple.com/quicktime/products/qt/
    
    You will need to turn up the brightness of your monitor to see it. The
    orginal unedited video is
    better. But this gives you an idea of what I saw and recorded. Play the
    video, and hopefully you
    see the sat.
    
    Tom wrote
    
    Sounds pretty cool. I'm interesting in doing the same thing, so I
    Googled around
    to see if I could find out more, and came up with:
    http://satobs.org/seesat/Sep-2003/0171.html
    
    I assume that's the setup you used. Let us know when you get it on your
    website.
    
    Yup, that's the same setup:)
    
    Kevin
    
    
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