Well, not so much "first light" as First Pixels:
http://www.freesql.org/moon.jpg
No this is not an amazing photo at all, but as my dad would say "it's not the fact that the monkey paints well, it's the fact that the monkey paints AT ALL". I'm pretty pleased with myself for (finally) getting this working!
As suggested in this forum, I bought a ccd webcam today and removed the lens as required. I was surprised that I actually had a plastic film container hanging around and it sacrificed itself to be an adapter. Then I took on the software challenge.
While I'm not anti-Microsoft, I have far more linux resources than Windows. I only have linux laptops. I've never worked with third party USB drivers, or Video4Linux as required to get this working in X Windows. It killed the afternoon and I learned a lot (plus I can stream mpegs wirelessly now to this laptop, but thats just gravy )
Next will be mastering equatorial tracking and image stacking and maybe I'll have something to really crow about !
Gary H.
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Hi Gary,
Nice work, put's my first attemt to shame! The software out there can be a big help in producing a final image. We have a couple of members who are experienced in this type of imaging, maybe they can be persuaded to give a talk at a meeting on what they do and how they do it. What camera did you get, and what scope do you have?
Nice work, put's my first attemt to shame! The software out there can be a big help in producing a final image. We have a couple of members who are experienced in this type of imaging, maybe they can be persuaded to give a talk at a meeting on what they do and how they do it. What camera did you get, and what scope do you have?
Bruce D