As most of my Occultationist Buddies know, I have started observing 'Classified Geosats' with a piggybacked ST80 on my LX200. Last time I did this, I was 'on a roll' with the Geosats, and with time limited, tried a Lunar Occultation with the ST80 and it's 2 x 1.5 degree FOV in an effort to capture information on a double star in support of IOTA's newest mission of determining accurate separations and PAs.. I saw no evidence of a double star, even though this event had a separate listing in Dave Herald's OCCULT program. I needed to have a camera on the 12" for Occultations. So I needed a way to easily switch to a second camera in the main scope, while maintaining accurate GPS Timestamps from a KIWI OSD and avoiding video cable "hot plugging". This is my $20 solution. Maybe others will find it useful for what they do.. http://www.poyntsource.com/New/DualVideo.htm Derek C Breit BREIT IDEAS Obs - Morgan Hill - COSPAR 9739 http://www.poyntsource.com/New/index.htm PS.. This is only tested (and setup for tonight) in the daylight. I will not know until night time and dark sky if this 'economical' switch adds added noise or loss of signal strength to my videos. The Monitor image looks real good, so we shall see.. PSS.. I will eventually acquire another S-Video cable and see if the S-Video converter works, etc.. More testing to do.. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Subscribe/Unsubscribe info, Frequently Asked Questions, SeeSat-L archive: http://www.satobs.org/seesat/seesatindex.html
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