The graphic below shows how to calculate the size of the scale Earth to use as an overlay in DVS animations.
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Jun 202015
Jun 092015
I have just been testing DSSR5’s rewritten scan feature. This effectively triples the area covered by your imaging chip and also completely eliminates Newton’s rings. Here is how it works on a PST – DMK21 – PowerMate 2.5x setup.
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It also allows you to take full disk images of the Sun with a PST and DMK21 at prime like below.
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DSSR5 is currently only available to members of my user group but will be released publicly soon.
The scanner uses the same file format as DSSR captures so that DVS can automatically add the date and time like the 1123×673 pixel scan below.
Preview of DSSR5’s Solar Scan Feature
Solar HA
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Apr 172015
DSSR5 has a new scanning feature which enables cameras with small chips to produce images of the entire sun. I tried it with my DMK21 (1/4″ CCD) at prime focus on my PST which looks like this during capture.
Raw video frame
I then used the new scan function to automatically record a 5 minute video of the Sun while DSSR steered the scope to cover the entire solar surface. Registax then did its magic to produce this full disk image below.
Full solar disk produced by Registax 20150417 @ 09:30UT
This is a lot easier than mosaics and it looks like the method smooths out the PST hot spots as well. (It’s also a lot cheaper than a 1/2″ chip camera:-)
A very big thanks to Sylvain Weiller for suggesting this feature and helping me bring it to fruition.
Below are some recent scans – all taken with a 1/4″ DMK at prime focus on a PST.
Scan 20150418 @12:33UT