Re: [APML]: film speed vs. shutter vib.

[Cary Chleborad <bennu@ns.net>]

Patrick Greenlee wrote:
> 
> 
> >Has anyone ever tried taking movies of the planets?
> 
> Why not, the musical score has already been written.
> 
> >The basic idea is
> >to take a thousand images and wade through them to find the best one.
> >Bolex 35mm movie cameras are getting pretty cheap with the advent of
> >video, and they have t thread lens mounts (i think).  Anyway, just
> >thought that I'd kick that thought out for fun.
> 
> What frame rate did you have in mind?  Is there film fast enough to support
> it?  How do you dampen the vibrations of that mechanical wonder cum
> thrashing machine?  Would you settle for the Sun?  You could project the
> image on a screen and photograph that.
> 
> Patrick
Well as crazy as this may seem, it has been done sucsessfully.  I read
about this in an astrophotography book, although the title escapes me. 
I thought it was "high resolution astrophotography" by Jean Dragesco,
but i just thumbed through the book and i can't find the reference. 
I'll try to find it later...

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-Cary Chleborad                 Sacramento, CA
Sacramento Valley Astronomical Society - http://www.calweb.com/~svas/