I recently purchased an Orion Telescope’s “All-In-One” camera mainly for autoguiding and planetary photography, but the last few nights I tested it out in preparation for GeoSat Flaring Season coming up, and I am quite happy with the results. See video links below. The camera has a Video Time Insert feature that takes time off the computer clock. Obviously not as accurate as an I.O.T.A. video time inserter, but if carefully set, it can provide video timings accurate to about 0.1 second for satellite observers. The small 8mm lens the system comes with gives a 34° x 26° field of view, and can capture only naked-eye satellites. For geosyncs, I adapted a Nikon 105mm lens with a C-mount adapter and can reach below 13th magnitude in a 2.62° x 1.96° field of view with a 5-to-8 second exposure – not bad! I’ve already spotted a few “unknown” geosyncs that are not in the SpaceTrak ALL database. The system does real-time dark frame subtraction, greatly reducing noise and eliminating hot pixels, so the capture is quite good for an uncooled camera. The software can do automatic time-lapse very easily. I can let the system run for hours (about 12Gb / hour AVI format video file size) and it works great. Oh – and it is a COLOR camera. Orion All-In-One Camera website – http://www.telescope.com/Astrophotography/Astrophotography-Cameras/Orion-Sta rShoot-All-In-One-Astrophotography-Camera/pc/-1/c/4/sc/58/p/103030.uts My videos -- Geosyncs in the Orion Nebula -- http://youtu.be/NCpufXwdRig and Geosyncs through NGC-2548 -- http://youtu.be/XWPrUWKUFKo My FLICKR Account link showing ORION TELECOPE’s “ALL-IN-ONE” Camera set-up, videos and other details at: https://www.flickr.com/photos/xb70man/sets/72157650867697695/ Rick Baldridge Campbell, CA USA _______________________________________________ Seesat-l mailing list http://mailman.satobs.org/mailman/listinfo/seesat-lReceived on Tue Feb 17 2015 - 16:30:18 UTC
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