The Emerging Art of Video Astronomy, Part 1 By Brian Ventrudo Want to see more through your telescope than you can with an eyepiece? You could try your hand at imaging with a DSLR or CCD camera, but that’s got a long, steep learning curve. There’s another way to coax more detail from your telescope: video astronomy. Astronomical video cameras give real-time, full-color views of deep-sky objects with an amazingly high sensitivity that effectively triples the aperture of a small telescope, even in highly light-polluted skies. And these cameras provide an analog signal you can view with an off-the-shelf television or video monitor. Over the next few articles, we take a look at deep-sky video astronomy and see if it’s something that might make sense for you… - See more at: oneminuteastronomer/10081/video-astronomy-guide-1/#sthash.yDXW6CxD.dpuf
Posted on: Fri, 16 May 2014 08:02:48 +0000