Monday, April 1, 2013

Comet Panstarrs, Andromeda and a Mintron Camera

A monochrome, 0.5" chip Mintron camera fitted with a 100mm zoom TV lens was was attached to an undriven tripod and set to F=30mm.
Steve Massey's GStar4 video capture software was used to capture 50 frame AVIs, with each frame being a 5.12 s integration.
This is a screen capture showing the live view from Gstar4 :


The AVIs were processed on the comet. In this image, Comet Panstarrs can be seen below the Andromeda Galaxy:


The lens was then zoomed to 100mm and the comet was imaged:


Steve Wainwright

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