Hello All, It is now a year since I first used the Garmin 18 LVC receiver. Is it any good for timing? - or does it suffer from a nervous twitch, like Oliver...
You should consider the WAT-902H2 Ultimate in lieu of the PC164C. It has more resolution, more gain, and manual gain control, including some gamma controls....
Do you have a source and an approximate price for the WAT-902H2 Ultimate, Tony? Also, does it have a larger chip than the PC-164? And, most importantly, how...
SpyTown is the source I used and the only place I could find it. I paid $289 + $15 shipping. It does have a larger chip and finer resolution than the PC164C....
Hi Tony and Steve, ... A good price. I think in Europe I will pay at least 300 to 350 Euro. ... Weeks ago I found some pages with priced EM-CCD cameras. The...
Hi all, on Sept. 12th 2006 I made videos with WAT-120N + KIWI-OSD from moon occulting the Plejades. Here are the mid-field times of 14 reappearances. Looking...
... Are you sure its 10ms Gerhard? I just ran your timings through my calculator, and I make it 20ms I calculated what the time "should" have been (marked with...
Hi Geoff, ... you are right. Sorry for my stupid error. I think it was caused by the late local time after watching astronomy videos for some hours ;-). ... ...
... Yes, although it is worth remembering this Gerhard - because we need to sample for at least 17 minutes (to get 1ppm accuracy = 1,000 seconds to 1 ...
Hi Geoff, ... this could really become a problem.. Another typo from me, I measured only 2 Watts. But this makes no great difference. In June 2006 I made some...
Congratulations to Gerhard on his first (positive) timing using his Watec (in integration mode) for an Asteroid Occultation. In the (PlanOccult) report Gerhard...
Hi, I just ran a test, recording the LED with the Watec902h2 Ultimate and Kiwi. What I see is maybe .001sec early, so certainly not the problem the WAT-120N...
Thanks Steve! I got to thinking after I sent my email that the WAT-902H2 Ultimate is not an integrating video camera and therefore would not have the same...
Hi All, ... Yes Ed, it is just a matter of recording the LED flash with the camera, and determining the time when the LED first turns on. Don't worry about...
Hi Geoff and all, ... Thank you. ... This was also a surprise for me. I did some tests to see if all my times in integration mode are right. And fortunatly...
Hi All, Thanks to the efforts of Steve Messner (MN, USA) who tabulated the results of testing his Watec camera, I have used his results (with his permission)...
Photo 1 - This 3 gallon can totally encloses my Statpower 100 watt 12VDC to 110 VAC power inverter, its dedicated 12V sealed lead acid battery and the two AC...
Thanks Tom, takes me back to the sixties when I learned all that the first time. I need to do that again right now so its very timely indeed. Where are the...
Hi Paul, The photos are in my newly created album titled "AC Power Inverter Container/shield". Sorry about your email photo attachments that were "zapped out"...
Tom, Yeah got that sorted, now have my own album with some of my own images of activity last few years. Cheers for your system, I use those filters you show...
... Paul thanks for your safety alert. I must say I'm very nervous about people posting their home-made set-ups using "mains" voltage on a forum like this -...
Yeah its just a heads up, I'm happy with it all, even a telescope aimed at the sun could be a lethal weapon, so common sense must prevail. Regards... Paul Moss...
Hi Geoff and Paul, ... We don't have any "US safety inspections" for home made electrical devices for personal use that I am aware of. We do have electrical...
A bummer about the Celestron needing 110V, otherwise you could probably get rid of 110V altogether. i use to use a battery and inverter, or when near the...
Tom, Yes, the noise issue is certainly of interest to me, I plan on working deeper into radio astronomy as I progress. The balanced nature of inverter outputs...
I was able to video a nice detailed ISS lunar transit, with the new solar arrays, using the KIWI OSD for time insertion. The ISS passed near crater Tycho....
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