astrophotography question

pythonsyntax · 10-05-2013, 10:45 AM

My question is Canon camera are the only one support by linux?I was try to find a good Camera for astophotography but not sure what to pick from?

John VV · 10-05-2013, 03:25 PM

what CCD software are you using ?
IRIS ?
or something else

what are you planning on doing ?
"supper resolution" image stacking ?
a blur subtraction of registered images to bring out say a comet or asteroid

or are you just tacking on a camera to a 90mm telescope
or do you have something like a 12 inch long focal length Newtonian like a Dobsonian

or just long exposes to make "star trails"

pythonsyntax · 10-06-2013, 06:33 AM

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Originally Posted by John VV

what CCD software are you using ?
IRIS ?
or something else

what are you planning on doing ?
"supper resolution" image stacking ?
a blur subtraction of registered images to bring out say a comet or asteroid

or are you just tacking on a camera to a 90mm telescope
or do you have something like a 12 inch long focal length Newtonian like a Dobsonian

or just long exposes to make "star trails"

i plan to take pic off the stars and mars and asteroid.I got a celestron AstroMaster 130 EQ-MD telescope but i lost on what camera to but so it will work with linux?I hope you can help?

cascade9 · 10-06-2013, 06:42 AM

AS long as the camera uses USB mass storage or PTP (not some nasty proprietary protocol) it should work with linux.

Bit more info here-

http://www.teaser.fr/~hfiguiere/linux/digicam.html

ozar · 10-06-2013, 07:25 AM

Hello

You can take a look at the following webpage for a listing of cameras that should work:

http://www.gphoto.org/proj/libgphoto2/support.php

There are other cameras not yet listed that should also work.

John VV · 10-06-2013, 02:38 PM

as to the brand
do you all ready have a slr adapter
for cannon,nikon,pentex,...

it replaces the eyepiece

other adapters are for just the ccd ONLY -- think of the old "dry ice " cold camera"
using those were fun

gas hyper sensitizing the 35mm or 6x7 cm film and using dry ice , those were the days

ozar · 10-06-2013, 04:07 PM

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Originally Posted by John VV

gas hyper sensitizing the 35mm or 6x7 cm film and using dry ice , those were the days

That's the way I used to do my own astrophotography. In fact, I still have my gas hyper-sensitizing kit and Olympus OM-1 camera packed away somewhere around here. I've not kept up to date on the subject though, so don't really know what everyone is using these days.