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Mars August 31 2005

Started by Wes Higgins, 08/31/2005 04:44PM
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Posted 08/31/2005 04:44PM | Edited 08/31/2005 08:13PM Opening Post
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Hi,

Imaged with an Infinity 2-1 Monochrome camera (oh how I wish I had a color filter wheel this morning ), IR pass filter, 30fps, stack of 1000 frames.
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Wes Higgins


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Fabulous, Wes - the best rendition of the surface that I have seen yet this apparition. I hope you get those color filters spinning soon!!

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Posted 08/31/2005 05:27PM #2
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Wes,

Outstanding image, I can almost see a 3d affect to it. Very nice!!

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Wesley Higgins said:

Hi,

Imaged with an Infinity 2-1 Monochrome camera (oh how I wish I had a color filter wheel this morning ), IR pass filter, 30fps, stack of 1000 frames.

Thanks,

Wes Higgins
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Posted 08/31/2005 06:03PM #3
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Yikes!! Now that is one of the Very Best images of Mars I have seen this year! It is just Exquisite. I like it as B&W actually. The detail is stunning! Paolo is really going to like this one. I have an Infinity on order but I do Not Ever expect to match this quality. Congratulations Wes!!

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Wow Wes, that is nice! 8O
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awesome image! are you leaving earth Wes.....
overhere IR imaging actually is worser as the pure red channel, kind of identity crisis
best Jan
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Hi Wes,

You need to image Mars more often, unbelievable! That Infinity is one nice camera! Well I'm sure you had something to do with it also. grin

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Hi Robert,

Thanks!, that is a good question, I think I would prefer the faster frame rates to help defeat the seeing, we can always use a more powerful barlow to increase the image scale. I wish the Infinity 2-1 could image at faster than 30fps (even when using a small window with ROI I can only get about 35fps) the Infinity has some real advantages though.

Thanks,

Wes Higgins

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I wonder what the trade off would be between imaging @ higher frame rates with the LU075 compared with larger image scale with the Infinity (I'm assuming the scale is also the result of the Infinity's chip size in addition to the 18").


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Wes,
I can remember only a few years ago(as many others here can) your Saturn and Jupiter jaw dropping images. I believe this was about the same time that most of us were just learning the ropes of our ToUcam 740's and Registax V1 smile

I think this image says it all. That scopes mirror, your seeing conditions, your technique, image processing skills and updating your camera choices are all very obvious.

WONDERFUL IMAGE ! (how about that color wheel?) smile
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3 weeks ago i recieved one of the first Atik manual filter wheel, pretty nifty craftmanship and works great, made some photo of mine
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