(meteorobs) Dark Subtracts with a typical allsky camera

[Chris Peterson]

Ordinary video cameras just send out a stream of frames. They don't 
accept any sort of dynamic control, and you can't select what frames 
they will output.

If you're interested in video meteor observing, the simplest setup is a 
basic high sensitivity B&W video camera with a fairly wide field lens 
(up to full sky coverage), and a piece of capture software intended 
specifically for recording meteors (UFOCapture, Metrec, Sentinel).

Chris

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Chris L Peterson
Cloudbait Observatory
http://www.cloudbait.com

On 10/5/2012 8:41 PM, Wayne Watson wrote:
> The next trick would be to actually trigger the camera for N frames. Is
> there software that would do that? Maybe the fellow in AZ who sells
> astro software has a method? HandyAVI??
>
> Hmmm, so I called him. He was getting a decent number of stars in some
> meteor videos on his web pages.
> <http://www.azcendant.com/HandyAviExamples5.html>  Aug 13 video.
>
> He's using a Watek Ultimate H2 camera, and a Computar 2.6mm all sky
> lens? I can find the first but not the second. Encouraging anyway.
>