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Posts Made By: Alan Friedman

August 4, 2005 07:53 PM Forum: Pictures of Me and My Telescope and........

me and my 6 mm

Posted By Alan Friedman
A picture of my main telescope - I never travel without it (them).

Over the winter I started experimenting with firewire webcams for planetary imaging. My first camera was a Unibrain fire-I board camera that I mounted in a tin can - I call it my Altoid camera. For first light I attached the old lens from my faithful ToUcam and pointed it at the closest subject at hand - me. I thought the result was kind of neat.

cheers -
Alan Friedman

August 6, 2005 02:15 PM Forum: CCD Imaging and Processing/Solar System

Re: Mars - August 5th UT - blue clouds/haze on the

Posted By Alan Friedman
Hi Robert -

Spectacular image and excellent processing - perhaps a little shifted to magenta in color - but a gorgeous result.

Alan

August 9, 2005 06:06 PM Forum: CCD Imaging and Processing/Solar System

mars from sunday

Posted By Alan Friedman
I'm not sure why I continued to work on this (maybe because I never did get to image the solis lacus region in 2003) - seeing conditions were so poor going back to bed would have been a better use of time. But I didn't so I will share this very soft and fuzzy mars with you.

Alan

August 16, 2005 03:57 PM Forum: CCD Imaging and Processing/Solar System

aristarchus region at dawn

Posted By Alan Friedman
Hi all -

A couple of weeks ago after imaging mars I took some shots of the crescent moon as the sun was rising. This region - so memorably captured close-up by Wes - was beautiful, though the daylight washed the contrast a little and made the small craters look as if they were flooded with black ink.

I had some time while travelling this week to work on the image (though catching up with the forum is a little hard on a dial-up modem). It was taken July 31st with my 10" mak at prime focus.

Alan

August 19, 2005 01:43 AM Forum: CCD Imaging and Processing/Solar System

Re: Mars - Solis Lacus and a few Martian Volcanoes

Posted By Alan Friedman
Hi Robert -

You've prepared a very fine image from such poor seeing - nice work!

Alan

August 21, 2005 11:15 PM Forum: CCD Imaging and Processing/Solar System

Re: Mars - August 19th - Volcanoes in slightly bet

Posted By Alan Friedman
Hi Robert -

That is a very fine image indeed - I especially like the processing.

Alan

August 22, 2005 06:43 PM Forum: CCD Imaging and Processing/Solar System

Re: Mars on August 17th

Posted By Alan Friedman
Hi Damian -

These are remarkable images - and the processing is superb!

Alan

August 23, 2005 04:15 PM Forum: CCD Imaging and Processing/Solar System

Re: A change of gears - Our seventh planet

Posted By Alan Friedman
Lovely - and mysterious. The beautiful blue color makes it look like it would be a nice place to visit. 8)

Alan

August 25, 2005 12:13 AM Forum: CCD Imaging and Processing/Solar System

RGB mars from 8/24

Posted By Alan Friedman
RGB composite taken in average conditions this morning - seeing 5/10, transparency 4/5

best,
Alan

August 26, 2005 02:57 PM Forum: CCD Imaging and Processing/Solar System

Aug 25 Mars

Posted By Alan Friedman
Still poor conditions and not a very interesting result but at least I was able to practice working on the balance of RGB components - I think this image is a color improvement over the one from the day before.

best,
Alan

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