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Posts Made By: Alan Friedman

September 14, 2005 04:27 PM Forum: CCD Imaging and Processing/Solar System

Re: Mars Sept 13th UT - LU075C

Posted By Alan Friedman
Hi Robert -

Robert Heffner said:

Not a good image

NOT! It is a wonderful image with some of the nicest processing values I have seen yet this apparition.
Keep up the great work -

Alan

September 16, 2005 06:00 PM Forum: CCD Imaging and Processing/Solar System

mars september 13

Posted By Alan Friedman
I had thought better of this video as I looked at it outside with the screen dimmed way down - but in daylight it didn't look as good sad Funny how things always seem worse when you wake up in the middle of the night - except for mars images, which look worse in the daytime smile


September 20, 2005 10:53 PM Forum: CCD Imaging and Processing/Solar System

RGB Mars with purple haze

Posted By Alan Friedman
Hi all -

From Sunday morning, taken with my 10" mak and DMK21BF04 B&W webcam thru IR pass and RGB filters. Conditions were good - the best I have had thus far in 10 or so attempts. The North Polar haze was quite prominent - blue, not purple, but Jimi Hendrix was on my mind today.

best,
Alan

September 21, 2005 08:57 PM Forum: CCD Imaging and Processing/Solar System

Re: I think I got one in.

Posted By Alan Friedman
Hi Brian -

It's a fine set of images. I took the leftmost one and made a few adjustments in Photoshop. I aligned the blue and red channels, and did a little work on the color balance. Let me know what you think.

Alan

September 21, 2005 11:20 PM Forum: CCD Imaging and Processing/Solar System

Leapin' Lizards, Batman!!

Posted By Alan Friedman
I've never seen a prominence quite like this before.
Made me late to work today.

webcam capture through a 5" Zeiss refractor with 90mm H-Alpha filter.

enjoy -
Alan

September 26, 2005 03:49 AM Forum: CCD Imaging and Processing/Solar System

Tycho at teatime

Posted By Alan Friedman
When I first looked at this I thought the sun angle was higher - but it is late in the lunar afternoon and quite similar to the phase of Mike's Tycho posted a few days back.

This was taken August 24th through an IR filter with my 10" A/P mak working at f30.

best,
Alan


September 26, 2005 07:16 PM Forum: CCD Imaging and Processing/Solar System

Re: Recent Mars images

Posted By Alan Friedman
Sessions 51 and 52 is just a hint that there are sessions 1-50 too!
I think we have one helluva movie to look forward to.

Truly splendid piece of work, Damian -

Alan

October 1, 2005 06:07 AM Forum: CCD Imaging and Processing/Solar System

my latest mars

Posted By Alan Friedman
Hi all -

A Wednesday morning capture followed by two days of processing trying to make the best of average conditions. About 20% of the frames were hand selected from each stream of 1200.

Remember Charlie Brown trying to kick that football? - I am beginning to feel like Charlie Brown - and the Clear Sky Clock is Lucy. Good grief!

happy weekend,
Alan

October 5, 2005 05:02 AM Forum: CCD Imaging and Processing/Solar System

Gomer Sinus

Posted By Alan Friedman
I'm not sure who left these paint drips called Gomer Sinus, but they are a very nice help for focusing! smile

Taken Monday morning in better than average seeing - B&W DMK21BF04 webcam with RGB filters. Luminance is created from red and green filtered images.

best wishes,
Alan

October 6, 2005 02:53 PM Forum: CCD Imaging and Processing/Solar System

Comparing mars over 56 million kilometers

Posted By Alan Friedman
I realized that the most recent face of Mars is almost the same as it was on my first observation in July - the red planet has come more than 56 million kilometers closer to earth during that period. Both images were captured at the same magnification through the A/P 10" mak at f45.

best wishes,
Alan

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