Backyard EOS AVI capture of Jupiter from last night.

We were open briefly last night. Four of us were out. Mike, Tim Dey, Rick and I were out at the observatory.

Around midnight I captured an AVI and processed it. This was captured using backyard EOS. A nice program for those with canon dslr cameras and live view mode. I had the canon EOS t1i hooked up to the c14 for the capture of Jupiter. Had shutter speed set to 1/80 of a second. Captured 2000 frames. Stacked and processed the AVI file using Registax 6.

Backyard EOS provides 5x video zoom capture from the t1i. The capture of the video was at native f11 focal length of the c14. That being 3911mm. But the 5x digital zoom capture makes it five times closer. So this would be what a 5x Barlow lens would show for a mounted camera looking at Jupiter.

So what is 3911 times 5? That's the focal length of this shot for a t1i. The t1i uses a 3/4 frame chip as well, so it's a little closer than a full frame chip or 35mm film negative would show.




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