[Lvas] Does my CCD camera fill the LCD monitor screen?

Douglas Phillipson douglas at intermind.net
Sun Jul 22 15:51:09 PDT 2007


John Boron asks:

Doug, when you are using the ccd camera with the Polaroid LCD monitor, 
does the image completely fill the screen?

JB

The answer is, if you mean "Does the object fill the screen?"  Well 
usually no, depending on the size of the object.  I bought the optional 
Focal Reducer (FR) for the Mallincam.  It makes the field of view larger 
which makes it easier to find objects.  After finding an object and 
centering it on the screen, I take out the FR and it about doubles in 
size.  The Cat Eye Nebula was quite small.  The Ring, Dumbell and Swan 
were quite large on the screen.  I'm not sure if you can use a Barlow 
with it or not, I guess I could try that...

Doug P


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