Sunday, 28 June 2015

UTC control for the Samsung

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UTC (Up The Coaxial) control is possible for the Samsung SDC-435 and SCB-2000 which can be controlled remotely using the hand controller. Th...
Tuesday, 23 June 2015

35% waxing, crescent Moon with a monochrome CMOS USB camera

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An Opticstar PL-130M monochrome, USB CMOS camera was placed at the prime focus of a 127 mm Maksutov and six, 500 frame AVIs were captured of...
Thursday, 18 June 2015

Solar imaging with an Opticstar PL-130M monochrome CMOS camera in H-alpha light

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The Opticstar PL-130M monochrome CMOS camera is a relatively low cost USB Imaging device that is marketed as a solar system camera and auto-...
Wednesday, 17 June 2015

Testing a £2 webcam as a possible starter camera for solar system imaging

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I purchased this camera from Amazon for £2 As a webcam, it is quite good and would probably give a good result for video conferencing an...
Thursday, 4 June 2015

The best of both adapter worlds with the £12-80, 1000 TV lines, colour TV camera

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Today, I removed the sliding IR cut/ plain glass filters from the lens holder and re-attached the lens threads to the circuit board. Th...

Results with a £12-80, 1000 TV lines board video camera and a capture card

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The mounted board camera was placed at the prime focus of a cheap 80mm refractor. The camera was fitted with a 1.25" UV/IR cut filter (...
Tuesday, 2 June 2015

Further experiments with a £12-80, 1000 line circuit board TV camera.

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Nicola Mackin's Aspect Ratio Converter can scale the image up or down during correction: Read more about Aspect Ration conversion HERE ...
Saturday, 30 May 2015

Experiments with a low cost board video camera

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I am looking into suitable, entry level astronomical imaging devices and am considering the merits of video TV board cameras. I located and ...
Friday, 18 January 2013

The Swan Nebula, M29 and M13 with a Samsung SDC-435 and a 6", f/5 Newtonian

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The Swan or Omega Nebula, M17 with a 6," f/5 Newtonian The SDC-435 was fitted with a light pollution filter M29, Open cluster i...
Thursday, 17 January 2013

SSNR3 Samsung noise reduction in the SDC-435

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The SDC-435 has a built in noise reduction function that is intended to be used in low light environments. It is important to use this fun...

Modifying the Samsung SDC-435 video camera for deep sky astronomy

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It should be noted that the Samsung SCB-2000 is the same camera as the SDC-435, re-named by Samsung following company reorganisation. ...