[Aavso-photometry] Using a DSLR

[Jeff Hopkins]

Hello Chris,

John Hoot presented a discussion of this at the last SAS meeting. You 
can see a Power Point Presentation of his talk at

http://www.socastrosci.org/

Jeff

At 16:51 -0700 11/21/2007, cspratt wrote:
>
>
>I was wondering if it is practical to do useful variable star work with
>a DSLR either using a camera lens or through a larger telescope. The
>AAVSO manual on CCDs doesn't mention using a DSLR. Is a filter  required
>and does it matter if the image is in colour? Or do you process it into
>B&W to do photometry?
>
>Chris. Spratt (SC)
>Victoria, BC

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