From: bob piatek <bobtek@fishcamp.com>

Date: July 22, 2005 9:15:40 AM MDT

To: Astro_IIDC@yahoogroups.com

Subject: Re: [Astro_IIDC] first early mars

Alan,

You seem to get consistently great results with your equipment.

That mars shot is simply stunning. I can't wait to see what you get when Mars gets closer.

Bob

On Jul 22, 2005, at 7:42 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