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Point and Shoot Camera CN Revisited
From: Greg Rudzinski
Date: 2015 Jan 7, 11:17 -0800
From: Greg Rudzinski
Date: 2015 Jan 7, 11:17 -0800
A revisit to my first unsuccessful efforts (8 years or so ago) at point and shoot camera CN using a Canon Powershot 10MP has me thinking that there may be a way to bring this type of affordable camera into the relm of practical CN. The still image settings offer three focus options. The infinity setting is the correct setting that will allow this inexpensive pocket camera to double as a useful sextant. An artifitial horizon will be used for calibration observations to construct a table of minutes of arc per pixel at various pixel counts. Lightroom 5/Paint software works well for processing images and counting pixels. Solar film taped across half the lens does a good job for filtering the Sun.
Greg Rudzinski
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