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Started by Brad, 08/05/2003 11:25PM
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Brad Cottingham
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How big a factor is computer speed and how much free harddrive is needed for successful webcam astrophotography?

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Posted 08/06/2003 12:08AM #1
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I use a gateway laptop 333hz,64mb ram with no problems. my hard drive is small, only 4 gigs. after loading all my programs I only have about 2 gigs left. I would say get a bigger drive then what I have. I'm looking to upgrade my drive to at least a 15 gig and laptop drives aren't cheap.
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Posted 08/06/2003 02:07AM #2
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Harddisk space is used up pretty fast. I use a Logitech quickcam with 640x480 resolution. At 5 frames/second a 60 sec AVI creates aproximately 250Mbyte file size.

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