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...
Bob, ... no, but you have a larger field of view at comparable sensitivity, because of larger chip area. BTW, the Sony chip comes in two resolutions, and the...
Hello all, I think I'd like to try my hand at this all sky thing, but I have some questions. Is there anything special about the convex mirror, or can it just...
Garry Lang
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Oct 18, 2002 1:28 pm
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How good the convex mirror needs to be depends on what you are trying to get from the data. I'm using a cheap plastic mirror intended to go on the side of...
Hello all, Could someone tell me how I go about getting an observer code and a site code for the MetRec database? Thanks, Gar...
Garry Lang
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Oct 18, 2002 2:09 pm
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Subject: [MetRec] All Sky Setup Hello all, I think I'd like to try my hand at this all sky thing, but I have some questions. Is there anything special about...
Gary, ... for the beginning just enter site code 0. Once you did some observations, Rainer Arlt (rarlt@...) will assign a new site code to your site. You...
Chris Not all Watec's are "terrible"! There have been several versions over the years of gradually increasing sensitivity. My 902B is perfect on the back of...
Andrew Elliott
andrew@...
Oct 19, 2002 8:42 pm
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Fair enough. I was referring to the Watec 902HS, which for the price seems a particularly poor camera. On the backside of an intensifier, you don't need...
Hope you'll share your results of this in due course! Andrew...
Andrew Elliott
andrew@...
Oct 20, 2002 8:20 pm
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... PC164C is $129 1/3" CCD Mintron 12V1 is $250 (almost twice the price of PC164C) 1/2" CCD I'm about to get Mintron 12V1, because of larger chip size...
Is there some confusion in lens specs here? Are you talking aperture or focal length? Certainly, when I talk about a 6mm or 8mm lens, I'm referring to the...
Bob, ... as Chris already wrote, two cameras means either two VCRs or two computer systems to analyse the video data stream online. You should not forget that....
... No, I really meant aperture. f-ratio = FL/aperture aperture = FL/f-ratio Those small FL lenses have really small apertures. I was doing meteor film...
Film is much less sensitive than video cameras. Also, why were you using such a slow lens? There are plenty of short focal length lenses faster than f/2. If...
Hello all, I just moved AstroRecord to a different computer, and now it won't start because it can't find PCDLIB32.DLL. It ran fine on the old computer, and...
Garry Lang
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Oct 22, 2002 11:42 pm
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I found this group a few days ago and you folks have me thinking seriously about setting up an all-sky camera. I just finished putting together a radio meteor...
Hi Steve, ... certainly. ... You are mainly interested in fireball, right? For this purpose, even a 200 MHz PC may be sufficient. Fireballs are usually easy to...
... Sirko, Thanks for the pointers. Yes, my main interest is fireballs so I'll put a "new" pc further down on my needs list. Good point on picking up the...
Hi Steve, May I be so bold as to inquire about the results you had with the Stellacam and the 8MM F1.6, such as what magnitude you were able to see to? Also,...
Steve, ... if that's not sufficient, you may choose the 2.6mm f/1.0 lens, which yields an fov of 123x97 deg. I don't think the difference between F/0.8 and...
Hi Steve- A few observations: First, don't be too quick to discount a convex mirror instead of a fisheye lens. You lose a little sensitivity, but not much....
... What lens are you using, that "looks down" at the convex mirror? BY ... ADVERTISEMENT [Image] [Image] ... [Non-text portions of this message have been...
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