Seeing monitor capture

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donstim
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Seeing monitor capture

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I haven't actually tried using this yet, but for one of the objects I would like to use it on (Jupiter), it would be helpful to have an additional capture length criterion. Since Jupiter rotates so rapidly, it is usually advisable to limit captures to one or two minutes in order to avoid rotational effects. If possible, it would be nice to be able to specify a capture length in time in addition to the current capture length in number of frames.

For the case of limiting the capture of rotation of Jupiter, the capture time limit would start with the first frame not discarded if using Seeing Filtered Capture and run continuously regardless of how many frames are captured or discarded from then on. I don't know if there would be another use for a capture time limit rather than frame limit, but I suppose there could also be the capability to have the time duration only apply to the captured (not discarded) frames.

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cuivenion
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Re: Seeing monitor capture

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You can already specify a capture length in time, it's what I normally use for lunar and planetary. It's in the capture interface, you can choose between time and frames.
donstim
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Re: Seeing monitor capture

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Yes, but my understanding is that's not using the seeing monitor feature of being able to filter the captured frames.
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Re: Seeing monitor capture

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Hi,

Yes, you're right that at the moment the only option for the seeing triggered or filtered capturing is to specify the number of frames.

Cheers, Robin
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