Hi Tom, Good to hear that your first expedition with your SUV full of "stuff" managed to gather some good astronomic timing data. ... Thanks for that Tom, oh...
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...
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)...
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...
Hi Bamm, ... The Garmin and OSD are available from www.pfdsystems.com. If you use the NTSC TV system you can get the PC-164 from www.supercircuits.com (or do a...
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...
Hello, I am planning to get a KIWI-OSD for our society's observations. I need help regarding the following questions: 1) Does the KIWI-OSD only work with the...
ok, simple request and i'm sure more than one of you has the answer. i have a sony digital camcorder which i will use to capture occultation events. i have a...
This question for Tony George or anyone who has modified there KIWI OSD for the 9 volt internal battery. Any info on how long you can expect a fresh battery to...
A friend and I are hoping to catch Alexandra's shadow as it passes over Vancouver Island this July 4th. My camera and OSD are on the way and my friend...
I have copied the following reply from me to Richard into this egroup, because it may also help others with similar FIX issues. ... Hi Richard, I like your...
Hi Dave, ... Maybe, though we are not seeing the same variability during the secondary phase, just the primary. ... Yeah. To my eye, there is a definite upward...
I have created a movie of the Antares R from 14th. It can be found here... http://us.share.geocities.com/dave4gee/antares_r_clip.mpg Regards DaveGault ...
Hello All, Rather late getting into this one, had other distractions. I observed the occultation from Mt John on the 60 cm aided by, or more correctly as...
... Hi Steve, Just a thought - because you already had the Garmin 16 GPS (before you obtained a KIWI OSD), the 1PPS output pulse length may be the default of ...
Thanks for the update ... Dave Gault isn't the only one playing with new toys on this event. I have just purchased a clone of the Mintron camera (GSTAR-EX)...
Hello All, Thomas Flatres (the man who I think made the very first Video Time Inserter)has just written a nice utility that can take a BMP 'frame' image, and...
I was very successful in recording a graze last evening from San Jose, California (five peaks plus a flash), and very thankful that I had the Kiwi OSD in use,...
any time i use movie maker (XP SP2 version) to open an .avi file (previously captured movie), movie maker exits ungracefully with a nice fat runtime error....
Dear all, Hello from the Philippines! I observed the north west lunar quadrant on the 21st of April (UT) from 19:00 UT to 21:00 UT and on the 22nd of April...
Recent messages have addressed portable TV approaches for viewing the video camera outputs. I am still a couple weeks away from being able to try variations...
I have an old NTSC monitor that I use to test OSDs and GPSs before i ship them out. It has been working well up to now, but it's 18 yrs is catching up with it....
in a number of threads, Geoff has indicated that I configure the Garmin 18 prior to shipping it. that much is 100% accurate. what he usually says is that the...
Hello all, Video Time insertion seems like a simple task - just plonk the time from a GPS onto a video stream! However the devil is in the detail: - What...
On many occasions I have noted that my hand-held GPS changes a lot in the first minutes after getting a fix, as compared with the variation in coordinates...
After being down for a couple of weeks, I have the web-site up accepting orders again. I'm offering a couple new configuration options for the OSD plus...
Hello to all, on http://spaceweather.com/ (22.Feb.2006) there is a great video of a ISS-Moon pass. It seems to me that KIWI-OSD was used for timing. Regards...
