Astro Photography using a Pocket PC?

On Thu, 28 Aug 2003 00:27:15 +0800, "Jornada"
wrote:

Hi Chris,
I don't intend to film a movie. Just jpg images at 1280x1024 or 1024x768
resolution.
I think its more impt since a CCD would be better suited to taking bw pics
than a normal digital camera (right?). Taking about 100 shots would then
need about 50MB, well within the capability of a decent memory card....

With either a digital camera or a web camera you need to stack many uncompressed
images to get decent results. If you do 640x480 B&W, figure about 300K per
image, and you'd probably want to be able to collect at least 100 in an evening,
so yes, if you do it this way, you can probably work within the memory
limitations of a handheld.

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Chris L Peterson
Cloudbait Observatory
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