Live webcast - on-air

Folks - Celbridge is clear at the moment.

I am running a live webcast on www.astroshack.net if you fancy taking a look. Current target is Saturn

Cheers

Dave McD

Looking Good!!

Cheers Conor - now on Jupiter with a x2 Barlow so hard to track...

Cheers


Dave McD

Great images , Dave.

I'm wondering how you do that . :
I'm new to astronomy, but computers/software have always interested me. I saw Jupiter and it's moons through a telescope last night and it was stunning.

The DSI refers to Meade Deep Space Imager ?
Does that take stills or can it produce AVI files ?

And how do you get it out as a webcast ?
If it's individual images, do you upload them to your page each take and overwrite the previous shot , or it is a continuous stream of data hosted on a webcast server ?

Too many questions

Regards

Denis

Thanks Denis. I'll try and answer your questions whilst trying to webcast!

DSI - meade deap sky imager. Nice cheap way to start in CCD imaging. It doesn't produce AVI files - but it can do time lapse to show eg the rotation of Jupiter. No need for it to take avis as it produces a composite image - it stacks 'on-the-fly' and gives a sharper image the more individual images you take.

I FTP the composite image to the website every 60 seconds. The HTML page refreshes every 30 seconds. The composite image is overwritten each time it is FTP'd across the net.

Better go and re-adjust the bloody mount....

Cheers!

Dave McD

You make it sound too easy

Denis