#Backyardeos for nikon skin#
#Backyardeos for nikon software#
#Backyardeos for nikon code#

Now, here's a way to easily get Nikon support into TheSkyX without having to have a camera to test against ongoing. The straw that broke the camel's back on this idea was that O'Telescopes has also released Backyard Nikon. and well, there's a good sized group of people who prefer to work their deep sky data captured as raw files, prefer live view to automated focus, and so on. This would be a killer setup I thought for planetary imaging too since TPoint makes finding and centering the planet easy, and Backyard EOS makes capturing the 1 to 1 pixel ratio video of the planets possibleРІР‚В¦.

All without having to disconnect/reconnect, etc. and switch to Backyard EOS for your image capture if you like. Then you could use TheSkyX РІР‚СљnativelyРІР‚Сњ for things like mount modeling, TPoint, closed loop slews, etc.

#Backyardeos for nikon software#

Needless to say, it was already in the back of my mind to make a plug-in that simply uses Backyard EOS as the X2 camera (TheSkyX already works well using other third-party imaging software as the РІР‚СљcameraРІР‚Сњ).

#Backyardeos for nikon skin#

I could go on and on about how there is more than one way to skin a cat, and how different mind sets and learning styles like to work in different ways, but I'll spare you the lecture. In fact, I already owned a copy and have used it for video capture for planetary imaging myself. They have a very polished interface that is 100% inspired by the DSLR experience. Our workflow treats a DSLR like an uncooled CCD camera, and Backyard EOS treats it like a DSLR.

In addition, simplyРІР‚В¦ this is an expensive camera and if I can't have one to use regularly and debug against it, it's going to be pretty tricky to support it on an ongoing basis.Р”Р„round the same timeРІР‚В¦ at least one if not more than one customer has mentioned that they like Backyard EOS better for DSLR imaging. I've had some success and can take pictures with a native X2 plug-in, but it is a long way from polished, and is taking time from a couple of high priority projects. In an effort to help things along, they sent me/us a D810a so I could use it for a little while, and work with the SDK to see if I could not get a native X2 plug-in going much like we have for the Canon DSLR's. There has been some growing interest in Nikon X2 support, and with the new D810a Nikon has officially signaled that they are interested in the astrophotography market. I had a few goals, one was to see if I could not make the MYT misbehave with respect to guiding (sorry, but I could not), one was to work on РІР‚СљSkyBoxРІР‚Сњ, our Linux based imaging product, the other was to try and get some good dark sky time on a Nikon D810a before I have to return it. There's not much patience here for misbehavior while visions of being injected with the West Nile virus are dancing in my headРІР‚В¦Р”Р„fter a summer almost devoid of clear nights, this last weekend we had good seeing and good transparency so I decided to head down to my dark sky site in South Florida.

#Backyardeos for nikon code#

You can go a long way on the desk, or with simulators, but nothing really shakes out a piece of code like sitting in the dark with a small screened laptop with a flaky trackpad trying to image while the mosquitoes are buzzing in your ears and bitting you. Like many of our customers, often times development of new features or even trouble shooting hardware or software issues is often held up by lack of imaging weather.