First Saturn w/DMK

[timthelder]

I had another clear night(luckily), seeing was a strong 6/10.

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235mm SCT at prime

60fps>Gain=449>Exposure=1/109>Gamma=112

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235mm SCT at prime w/2.5x Powermate

60fps>Gain=720>Exposure=1/15>Gamma=67

Both stacked in RSV4, a little tweeking in PS3.

Ways to improve always welcome, '8/10 seeing' would be nice, :biggrin: I have a 5x powermate I'm dying to try out.

[Radar]

Awesome Tim, getting very close now. It looks like you got the hard part out the way.

Now from reading other threads, does your camera actually catch 60fps?

Ray

[little legs]

Excellent Saturn Tim :woot: :woot:

When i first tried Saturn i was taking high fps but found that i was getting a lot of noise. Someone on another forum i use to belong to said to try either 5 or 10 but no more and what an improvement!! I use K3CCD tools as capture software and set the gamma to about 80%, sometimes a little lower. Exposure wise is either 1/33 or 1/50 depending on conditions. Now i could be talking complete nonsense as i really still haven't a clue myself!lol But give it a go and see if that makes a difference. :wink:

Oh and i tend to take no less than 3 min avi's but try for 6 mins giving me around 1000-1600 frames to play with.

[timthelder]

Now from reading other threads, does your camera actually catch 60fps?



Seems like I might have run across something over at TIS's forums about the s/noise ratio and the amount of frames...but at the time I was more worried about just getting IC capture to work. I haven't worked out any of the mathematical part of the capture features yet.





When i first tried Saturn i was taking high fps but found that i was getting a lot of noise.


The gain setting on the DMK if it is too high makes some noise, other than that the gamma works more like a contrast adjustment.
There is no more, or less noise created, no matter which fps setting I have on the camera.

[Matty P]

A nice first Saturn Tim, well done.

You can only improve from now on.