
Sorry for the bad news, but you might as well get it up front before spending a lot of time with equipment that is not well suited for the job.
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Deep Sky Stacker (DSS) Deep Sky Imaging Stacking Software Windows FREE. about the search for extrasolar planets (including catalogue) Mars Global Surveyor. Imaging telescopes or lenses: Sky-Watcher Newton 8' f/5.9 Imaging cameras: Canon 450D Mounts: Celestron CG-5 Advanced GT Software: BackyardEOS Backyard EOS 3.0. If you really want to get into planetary, then you should probably look into a new camera like the ASI224MC or a second hand Canon on ebay. Extrasolar Planets Encyclopaedia Up-to-date info. This is how I started in planetary with my Canon 700D Using the in camera video stream is not good either, the compression used to make the video screws up the frames and the image quality suffers.
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Next, the Nikon series of cameras are not great for video imaging either, the Canon DSLR system works almost as well as a dedicated astro camera like the ASI224MC using the Liveview feature, but the Nikon system does not. The optimum focal ratio for planetary is about 5x the pixel size of the camera. Hi Daniel, unfortunately that's not a great setup for planetary.įirstly, your scope is too short in focal length, you will need to get up to f/20 or so for best results (so a 4/5x Barlow will be required). BackyardEOS has proven to be a powerful image acquisition tool for those images who want to use their Canon Digital SLR this program will do the job and do it quite well.
