From: "neale_monks" <nmonks@biocomp2.unl.edu>

Date: April 15, 2005 12:08:07 PM MDT

To: Astro_IIDC@yahoogroups.com

Subject: some pictures

Milton,

Added a couple of pictures to the "Planetary" folder and one of the Moon to the "Files" 

section.

What's interesting about this latter is that what you are looking at are unprocessed frames 

stuck together in Photoshop. Usually, I have found that the brightness varies a great deal 

between the limb of the Moon and the surface closer to the terminator. This seems to  

throw the webcam off, and the colour balance is totally different in some frames compared 

with others. Net result, I need to adjust each frame in Photoshop so that the joins can't be  

seen. If I don't, I get this:

http://www.applelust.com/scitech/archives/graphics/m020405moonlg.jpg

Somehow, this didn't happen when used Astro IIDC. Brightness is very uniform, and each  

frame blends with the next almost imperceptibly.

Cheers,

Neale