From: Milton Aupperle <milton@outcastsoft.com>

Date: July 22, 2005 9:10:28 AM MDT

To: Astro_IIDC@yahoogroups.com

Subject: Re: [Astro_IIDC] first early mars

Hi Allan;

All I have to say is "WOW". That's the best Mars I've seen so far in 2005.

Milton J. Aupperle

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On 22-Jul-05, at 8:42 AM, Alan Friedman wrote:

Greetings -

Had a brief break in the clouds this week and a chance to capture my first mars image

from this apparition:

I used the stacking feature in ASTRO IIDC to create the components for the RGB layers

(captured using a manual filterwheel with my B&W DMK 21BF04 webcam.) Although I still

found that I could tweak a little higher resolution by hand selecting and multiple aligning

the frames for a luminence image, using the auto stacking routine in ASTROIIDC saves a

bunch of time.

best,

Alan