Higher resolution video on here on Archive.org Cinepack is full resolution |
Long Exposure TimeLapse (65 second exposures)This is my first try at long exposure timelapse at night. |
Higher resolution video on here on Archive.org Cinepack is full resolution |
This is the second try a couple nights later. I uploaded both the straight jpg version, and then another where I adjusted the levels and color to try and bring out the stars a little better. The aspect ratio on this is messed up, the original is in 'portrait' orientation, but the archive.org processing scaled it to 'landscape'.. so orion looks a little too short/fat.. |
Lunar Eclipse 8/28/2007This was an attempt to capture the eclipse on 8/28/2007. I used CHDK with my camera mounted on an orion Atlas mount. I think the eclipse was at around 3am, and I had to work the next day, so I wanted to try and get it to capture the whole sequence while I slept... It kind of worked.. the main problem was that I wanted to use auto-exposure so that it wouldn't be completely over-exposed before and after totality, but still have a nice exposure during totality... I had to use the spot exposure setting in order to get good results, but that meant that the moon had to stay inside the little box in the center of the viewfinder. You can see a couple of places where it moved out of the spot area and it got really bright. I think my batteries died, or my tracking was off, so I didn't actually get much totality.
In the CHDK forums, there was some talk of dynamically setting the exposure inside of a uBasic script.. I might try to get that working for the upcoming eclipse. |