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Posts Made By: Peter Morrison

August 13, 2004 07:36 AM Forum: Equipment Talk

OT - Coincidences...

Posted By Peter Morrison
Check out the Classifieds/Telescope - Refractor listing and see how many TV/movie characters, celebrities or dead lawyers you can spot. There are at least four.

Peter

September 28, 2005 02:41 AM Forum: CCD Imaging and Processing/Solar System

Another Mars

Posted By Peter Morrison
The seeing finally cooperated, and I think I am starting to get the hang of this.

Details:
Taken 09-25-2005 @ 2:53am PST.
Philips ToUcam Pro II, 1/33s, 15fps
10" Meade LX200 GPS, Alt/Az, 2x Barlow
Aligned, stacked, wavelet & gamma processing in Registax 3.
Unsharp mask, crop in MS digital image suite

Peter Morrison

October 4, 2005 02:14 AM Forum: CCD Imaging and Processing/Solar System

4 hours of Mars

Posted By Peter Morrison
These are from my October 2 session between 1am and 5am (PST). I was experimenting with and without a IR/UV filter, and comparing a 2.5 Powermate to my 2x Barlow. The image scale from my 2x Barlow is almost identical to the 2.5x Powermate.

Details:
Philips ToUcam Pro II, 1/33s, 15fps
10" Meade LX200 GPS, Alt/Az
2x Barlow or 2.5 Powermate
Aligned, stacked, wavelet & gamma processing in Registax 3.
Unsharp mask, cropped, rotated and combined in MS digital image suite
The top row images are IR/UV blocked, and slightly “warmed” using the Registax histogram function. All other processing was identical. There may be some artifacts due to rotating the images to the same orientation (Alt/Az curse).

October 21, 2005 07:03 AM Forum: CCD Imaging and Processing/Solar System

Mars 10/20/2005

Posted By Peter Morrison
I managed go catch a few AVI's before the fog rolled in. I suspect a little dust in this one too.

Details:
Philips ToUcam Pro II, 1/33s, 10fps
10" Meade LX200 GPS, Alt/Az
3x Meade TeleXtender, UV/IR block
~700/1200 frames (approx)

Align, stack, wavelet & gamma processing in Registax 3. A smidgen of sharpening, crop and orient in MS digital image suite.

Peter

October 29, 2005 05:51 PM Forum: CCD Imaging and Processing/Solar System

Mars dust storm 10/29/2005

Posted By Peter Morrison
Here is one of my images from last night. The seeing was OK (maybe 3/5). I may have to adjust my gain next time as the dust storm saturates that part of the image.

Details:
10/29/2005, 1:05am PST
Philips ToUcam Pro II, 1/33s, 10fps
10" Meade LX200 GPS, Alt/Az
3x Meade TeleXtender, UV/IR block
~700/1200 frames (approx)

Align, stack, wavelet & gamma processing in Registax 3. Crop and orient in MS digital image suite.

Thanks for looking.
Peter

October 31, 2005 04:14 PM Forum: CCD Imaging and Processing/Solar System

Mars Storm Compare (10/28 & 10/29)

Posted By Peter Morrison
Here is a comparison of the storm over a day. I would have had more images to compare but the fog rolled in after I took the second image of 10/29.

Details:
Philips ToUcam Pro II, 1/33s, 10fps
10" Meade LX200 GPS, Alt/Az
3x Meade TeleXtender, UV/IR block

Align, stack, wavelet & gamma processing in Registax 3. Crop and orient in MS digital image suite.

Peter.

November 4, 2005 05:52 AM Forum: CCD Imaging and Processing/Solar System

Mars 11/01 - Bad seeing

Posted By Peter Morrison
We got some warm weather here in San Diego, and with it came bad bad seeing. I experimented with the exposure and gain to see if I could compensate with shorter exposures. I think I would rather have good seeing.

Details:
Optics - 10" Meade SCT, 3x TeleXtender
Mount - Meade LX200 GPS Alt/Az
Camera - Philips ToUcam Pro II
1/50second, 10fps, 200 second AVI
Align, stack, wavelet & gamma processing in Registax 3.
About 400/2000 frames.
Crop in MS Digital Image Suite.

Thanks,

Peter

November 16, 2005 04:14 PM Forum: CCD Imaging and Processing/Solar System

Mars 11/14 - Volcanos & craters

Posted By Peter Morrison
Olympus Mons, Elysium Mons, Newton crater and the finger thingy. Not sure what that is called.

Details:
Taken 11/14/2005 @ 10:56pm PST, average seeing
10" Meade LX200 GPS Alt/Az,
3x TeleXtender, UV/IR block
Philips ToUcam Pro II
800+/1800

Peter

November 23, 2005 11:30 PM Forum: CCD Imaging and Processing/Solar System

Mars 11/20 - More bad seeing

Posted By Peter Morrison
Yet another week of bad seeing due to the warm winds blowing from the Santa Ana mountain range. I was able to get a reasonable focus at 200x in the eyepiece, so took a bunch of AVI's just in case. It's a little over-processed, but the image scale hides most of that :-).

Details:
11/20/2005, 10:40pm PST
Philips ToUcam Pro II, 1/33s, 10fps
10" Meade LX200 GPS, Alt/Az
3x Meade TeleXtender, UV/IR block
800/1800 frames (approx)

Align, stack, wavelet & gamma processing in Registax 3. Crop and orient and final tweaks in MS digital image suite.

Thanks for looking.

Peter

December 10, 2005 09:44 PM Forum: CCD Imaging and Processing/Solar System

Mars Nov 28 - Quantity vs Quality

Posted By Peter Morrison
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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