4
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• Join AVI files
• Make Movie from still images
For more information of software features please read the Orion HandyAVI Lite
Manual located on the CD launcher (
Figure 1).
Care and Maintenance
The lens should only be cleaned if significant dust builds up for if the lens is
touched. Any quality optical lens cleaning tissue and optical lens cleaning fluid
specifically designed for multi-coated optics can be used to clean the lens.
Never use regular glass cleaner or cleaning fluid designed for eyeglasses.
Before cleaning with fluid and tissue, blow any loose particle off the surface with
a blower bulb or compressed air. Then apply some cleaning fluid to a tissue,
never directly on the optics. Wipe the optical surface gently in a circular motion,
then remove any excess fluid with a fresh lens tissue. Use caution, rubbing too
hard may cause scratches.
Time-lapse photography can be used
to film:
• clouds moving
• Meteor showers
• Milky Way moving across the
night sky, etc.
The only limitations are your imagi-
nation regarding what to photograph
using a time-lapse video process.
Anything that occurs slowly can be
speeded up using time-lapse photog-
raphy. The results are often amazing.
Orion HandyAVI Lite
will allow you to
set any time-lapse time that you desire
– from as fast as your
SSAIO
can pro-
duce images up to years of elapsed
time between frames!
Meteor Detection
OrionHandyAviLite allows you to easily create meteor trail videos using the
SSAIO.
Meteor detection can be done real-time or by scanning through older movie files.
When meteors are detected images and movies can be sent via FTP or email.
OrionHandyAviLite employs a sophisticated motion detection algorithm which
allows capture of ENTIRE meteor trails.
Your AVI file, after a night of recording, will be relatively small and contain only
those frames associated with meteor trails (or other objects moving across the
sky such as airplane trails of course.)
The sophisticated motion detection algorithm employed by OrionHandyAVI Lite
completely eliminates false detections caused by camera noise, cosmic ray
events, star scintillation, etc.
The system will also capture multiple lightning bolts and any other phenomena
that trigger the motion detection system.
tools
Tools are also provided within HandyAVI Lite including:
• Stacking Tools
• Frame Selector
• Crop and Save
• Scan AVI for Meteors
Figure 2.
The SSAIO, Fish Eye lens and
adjustable rings attached to a standard
tripod.
Figure 3.
Left: still frame showing ISS overhead. Right: Combined frames using meteor
detection to produce a “star trail” of the ISS.
Figure 4.
Left: Milky Way. Right: Moonlit clouds.