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Astrophotography by John Zimmerman Meade LPI Links.ASTROPHOTOGRAPHY WITH MEADE LUNAR PLANETARY IMAGER.This software looks like something that was done ten years ago as it only supports up to 256 color palettes and only works with gray scale images or one color plane of a color image. Meade LPI comes with Meade Autostar Image Processing.I use Irfan Skilhjan IrfanView for quickly scanning through images.I use Cor Berrevoets RegiStax for stacking images.LPI features to be tested and studied further Can not use an USB mouse at the same time that the LPI is being used.It takes a several seconds to start up LPI program.

The short 3-foot USB cable (I replaced it with a 6-foot USB cable).

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No way to receive a new PDF manual by email from Meade Technical Support.

No way to contact technical support by email.

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The long Meade registration form to fill out on Meade’s web site and then getting a CGI error when submitting the filled out form.

Meade Instruments Autostar Suite Desktop Observing for Windows Version 3.01 PDF manual will not print out.

I eventually got the software installed by copying all the files from the second CD to the laptop hard drive and then installing the software without any problem from the hard drive. The installation would die with an error message on not being able to read a file from the CD. A second CD was tried but had problems running the installation program. The CD would hang the laptop in starting the installation and would hang the laptop when trying to do a directory of the CD.

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My Compaq Presario 1200 laptop with DVD/CD drive had trouble reading the Meade software install CD. The software did not install from the CD correctly.

Software installation problems from the CD.

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Meade Autostar Image Processing for Windows version 3.0 Augdoes not support 24 or 32 bit PC color displays.

It looks like you can take and save an image about every 1.5 seconds.

No AVI mode to take lots of images fast.

This may be the result of different focal planes and the Tele Vue 5X Powermate I was using.

Image scale seems smaller than the Philips ToUcam PC camera.

More testing is needed to be done on comparing these two cameras.

The LPI seems less light sensitive than the Philips ToUcam PC camera.

Meade technical support was helpfull sending me a second CD.

Meade’s technical support number is on their web site.

Auto file save with increment number so that it will not overwrite existing files.

Images are saved in various file formats and are not compress like AVI files.

Longer exposures than the Philips ToUcam PC camera.

The good support from Sean's Astronomy Shop on using a second installation CD to get me going.

I do not own any Meade telescopes therefore I use the LPI on non-Meade telescopes. Meade AutoStar Suite includes the LPI camera, LPI camera software, image processing software, planetarium software and cables to control Meade telescopes. The Meade LPI Camera is operated with the Meade LPI camera program that is a part of Meade's AutoStar Suite. The LPI can be used as an autoguider to control Meade telescopes through the AutoStar Suite software.

The Meade LPI (Lunar Planetary Imager) camera is a small 640x480 color camera that is used with a computer with an USB interface. Later I processed these images with RegiStax software. I set up the LPI to take a series of images and save all the images as BMP files. Philips ToUcam I used the LPI without reading the manual. The clouds where moving in that night so after I took some quick Saturn images with the I used it for the first time that night to image Saturn (see above image). I acquired the Meade LPI from Sean's Astronomy Shop on December 21, 2003.

Saturn image taken on December 21, 2003, 22:36.

7 days 2 hours 24 minutes old Moon image taken on December 29, 2003.

Jupiter image with two moon shadows taken on March 20, 2004.

Jupiter image with three moon shadows taken on March 28, 2004.

Venus, Mars, Saturn, Jupiter and Moon crater images taken on April 26, 2004.

Moon Clavius Craterlets image taken on May 1, 2004.