From: Milton Aupperle <milton@outcastsoft.com>

Date: August 13, 2005 1:49:08 PM MDT

To: Astro_IIDC@yahoogroups.com

Subject: Re: [Astro_IIDC] A recent picture of Mars showing Solis Lacus from a former lurker

Hi Mike;

Glad it's working for you and thanks for the compliment on Astro IIDC.

Nice image for a smaller scope (of course my scope is only 5.1" aperture so I know what small measn) and I'm sure we will be seeing a lot more detail as we get closer to the November 1st  opposition.

I find it interesting that the upper left limb area is a lot brighter than I was expecting. And not to offend, but to my eyes with this monitor it's a bit yellow - but that can be corrected post software by adding a little bit more blue color channel  and decreasing the green color channel to the image.

Keep them coming..

Milton J. Aupperle

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On 13-Aug-05, at 12:07 AM, Michael T Snider wrote:

Hi All,

I have been following with keen interest the informative postings and

excellent photos here since the Group began.  Although I have taken

lunar and planetary images with firewire webcams for almost 3 years

with some success and  much enjoyment,  I have only recently began

to use the Astro IIDC software for capture.  I have placed a photo of

Mars taken with My 7" Maksutov using version 1.00  on August 3, 2005

in the files section.

Today I downloaded Version 2.02.00.  Hopefully the weather will clear

soon so I can try it out.

Thanks Milt for writing this well made MAC software and maintaining

a great discussion site.