I have one, and enjoy it, but it is of very limited use. You can take
decent pictures of Jupiter, Saturn, the moon, and terrestrial objects,
roughly faithful to what you see visually with a 6mm eyepiece.
You can set the exposure time from 0.001 sec to 16.0 seconds. It comes with
a little software program to let you stack images, throw out images below a
certain quality threshold, align on a star or feature, etc.
I have only been successful taking planetary shots. Nothing deep sky has
come out (even M42). I do look forward to seeing Meade's new "Deep Sky
Imager" at some point.
Problem with the eclipse: the high magnification of the LPI means you'd have
to take a lot of photos and stitch them together, but things change by the
time you make a full circuit. With my 8" LX200 it comes to roughly 333x.
And at that magnification level you also have to worry a lot more about
seeing conditions.
There's a Meade LPI group in yahoogroups. Join it and you'll be able to see
the image library. The images all look exactly the same, and so will yours. ;-)
Allan
Rob Hawley wrote:
> I am considering a Meade LPI. It might be great for the next eclipse (which
> is short and thus single exposure). Hopefully it will be fun to play with
> taking pictures of planets.
>
> I have been reading the reviews and it looks like there is not a clear
> favorite between webcams like the Toucam Pro and the LPI.
>
> Does anyone have any experience?
Received on Fri Oct 29 18:37:13 2004