Hello all, Can MetRec be used to capture meteor spectra? I assume you would want to capture individual frames rather than composites of frames (which seems to...
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Jun 3, 2002 2:21 pm
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Gary, ... a good source for transmission gratings is Edmund Scientific (www.edsci.com). They sell holographic plastic gratings for only a few bugs. Of course,...
Gary, ... yes and know. Typically you do not have one meteor but a number of "spectral meteor images" if you mount a grating in front of your lens. This will...
Folks, in recent months I had only little time to continue working on MetRec. Still a few nights remained for the software, where I introduced a number of...
I posted a message to Garry at vze3ctba@v... but it was not posted so I don't know if he received it. I am wondering if anyone has tested the transmission...
Hi Ed, I got your message. I was very close to buying the 300 g/mm grating from Optometrics, but I didn't want to spend the $170 for the 50mm x 50mm grating...
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Jun 30, 2002 1:09 am
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SELECTING A GRATING FOR METEOR SPECTROSCOPY I am often asked by would-be amateur spectroscopists. how to select a grating for this type of work. The best and...
Hello all, I've been observing for a few weeks now, and I'm starting to get some interesting results. But I'm also getting alot of what I think are false...
vze3ctba@...
Jul 16, 2002 6:00 pm
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Hello all, I know it's a bit off topic, but I was hoping to get a quick and easy answer. When I try to open my MetRec bitmaps with AstroRecord, they open...
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Jul 17, 2002 4:24 pm
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Hello all, I'm slightly off topic again. Hope nobody minds. I'm building AVI files using MetRec single frames and VFD. I can then load these files into...
vze3ctba@...
Jul 19, 2002 1:59 pm
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... grating from Optometrics, but I didn't want to spend the $170 for the 50mm x 50mm grating until I find out how well my 18mm intensifier works for spectra....
Ed, I'd be very interested in hearing your opinion of the Optometrics grating. I've done some testing with the Cokin P040. It doesn't seem to be terribly...
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Jul 24, 2002 1:31 pm
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... Ed, I'd be very interested in hearing your opinion of the Optometrics grating. I've done some testing with the Cokin P040. It doesn't seem to be terribly...
Hello all, I've recently started using a 105mm lens instead of the 50mm I was using before. It seems to work well, but now I'm getting so many meteors it's...
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Aug 6, 2002 4:51 pm
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Hello Garry, ... no, this option is not available. ... Yes. You need to install a disc cache program (e.g. smartdrv) beforehand and PostProc will run as fast...
Hi Sirko, I had experienced the same problem, PostProc was very slow if hundreds meteors were recorded. But I have found another solution; it seems to be O.K....
Rosta Stork
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Aug 6, 2002 6:53 pm
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Hi Rosta, ... MetRec and all tool programs are written for DOS and they require this operating system. All Windows version until Win98 have a full-features Dos...
Sirko, ... This brought up a new problem: When I try to optimize the dynamic range, I now adjusted the B&C so that background sky noise broad peak is near...
Ilkka Yrjola
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Aug 19, 2002 7:56 am
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Hi Ilkka, (Since Ilkka sent his message accidently to the whole list I will reply here as well as some of you might be interested in the answers.) ... what you...
Hallo Freunde, alles hat ein Ende - auch meine Zeit an der RWTH Aachen. Ende kommender Woche werde ich nach Muenchen umziehen. Daraus folgt: * Meine Aachener...
Hello all, I'm curious about why PostProc highlights some of the statistics when I'm viewing my data. I thought it was because the values seemed bad, but I'm...
Garry Lang
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Sep 14, 2002 2:36 pm
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Hi Garry, ... these are indeed warnings meant to bring your attention to the fact that the meteor *might* be a false detection. Warnings are issued: * if...
Dear Meteor watchers, Due to increased demands on my time (new child just about due) and living in Seattle (worst astronomy viewing anywhere) I've decided to ...
Tom Kreyche
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Oct 10, 2002 7:34 pm
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How much are you asking for your Matrox Meteor II card? ... Dear Meteor watchers, Due to increased demands on my time (new child just about due) and living in...
Folks, Jörg Strunk found a minor bug in the MetRec loader metrec.com. Sometimes the name of the logfile was not incremented when MetRec was restarted ...
What are some programs people will be using for the upcoming Leonids? (full moon interference). I shot the Leonids in 2000, where I had to make 5 min...
Don't use a Sony camera in night shot mode- that works by averaging together frames and is worthless for things that are moving fast. My experience is that the...
MATROX METEOR / PPB PCI FRAME GRABBER Please note that you are bidding on a Meteor/PPB CARD ONLY! This card is NEW, never used or installed other than to...
Folks, ... we have recently purchased a number of Mintron 12V1 cameras (www.mintron.com), and we are quite satisfied with these as well. Yesterday I posted the...
Bob, ... Yes, it would work. The main difference is that the Meteor-I has a maximum data transfer speed of about 40 MBit/s, whereas the Meteor-II manages up to...
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