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Mars Nov 28 - Quantity vs Quality

Started by cosmoscrazy, 12/10/2005 09:44PM
Posted 12/10/2005 09:44PM Opening Post
I wanted to capture the Solis Lacus region and the conditions appeared to cooperate this time around. I started early in the evening and did some rough processing in between some of the images, capturing more avi's when the seeing appeared to stabilize. I think my ToUcam settings were not quite right, my collimation was questionable and the seeing was variable. So after a lot of failed processing attempts, trying to get the best from at least one AVI, I decided to post the series instead.

Nice to see some clouds, but otherwise disappointing.

Details:
San Diego, CA - 11/28/2005
Philips ToUcam Pro II, 1/33s, 10fps
10" Meade LX200 GPS, Alt/Az
3x Meade TeleXtender, UV/IR block
Approx. 600/1800 frames for each image
Align, Stack, Wavelet & gamma processing in Registax 3,
Crop, rotate and combine in MS Digital Image Suite

Thanks for looking
Peter

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