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I haven't yet tried the planetary imaging mode of BYN for the obvious reasons that the main planets that I'd want to image aren't up in the window of time I have to image. But I've been thinking about this and thought I would ask.
I've been considering upgrading to a better solution than my Celestron NexImage 5 for planetary imaging, and then this idea dawned upon me. It's been ok, but not exactly great, and I'd love to get something better. But it dawned on me that I may already have what I need now that I'm using BYN.
Obviously, using a DSLR directly for planetary imaging isn't the best solution. But the way I understand it, rather than shooting MOV video with the camera's internal video engine (or whatever it's called), BYN / BYE uses the live view feature, capturing images and encoding them together in an AVI file. Is this correct?
Assuming that's correct, is it possible to use the digital zoom on the camera to zoom in on planets and use BYN that way without requiring the use of a barlow lens to magnify the planets? And if so, how good are the results I could expect using this technique (assuming it can be done, of course)?
Sorry if this has been covered already or if I'm just asking the obvious here. But if this is a viable way of doing it, I'm more than likely going to be using BYN and my D7000 as my planetary and lunar imaging camera and just ditch the NexImage 5, since I have a friend who really would like to buy it.
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