From: "Duane" <macastronomer@mac.com>

Date: October 18, 2005 12:15:36 PM MDT

To: Astro_IIDC@yahoogroups.com

Subject: Re: This is a blast!

I'll post that when I get home. The saturation is turned low. I don't like the strong colors, I 

tend to keep that pretty low but I don't recall what it was at.

I am probably doing something wrong then. Last night I took a lot of images at a lot of 

different settings to see what would happen. Now I just need time to work them all out.

Maybe I need to get another Astro IIDC for my dual G5. That would push through this a lot 

faster. However, I am glad I licensed it for the computer and not the camera because I just 

ordered the better camera and will have it to play with next week.

Quick question: I shot the Moon last night but didn't have a very good polar alignment at 

the time and I've got field rotation. Will Astro IIDC handle that or are those candidates for 

my "Whoops" file?

Thanks for the help.

Duane

--- In Astro_IIDC@yahoogroups.com, Milton Aupperle <milton@o...> wrote:

Duane;

You should not be getting the grid pattern with a color  Unibrain  

camera - unless something else is going on. For example, if you crank  

the saturation above 50 (WHICH WE HAVE SAID SPECIFICALLY NOT TO DO),  

then you will get processing artifacts.

So my guess is your cranking the saturation up to much. It would help  

if you posted the log info for the camera shot, because perhaps your  

settings are a bit extreme. Every Frame / Movie that is captured al  

the settings for it are logged so you can come back to them.

HTH..

Milton J. Aupperle

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ASC - Aupperle Services and Contracting

Mac Software (Drivers, Components and Application) Specialist

#1005 - 815 14th Avenue. S.W.

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On 18-Oct-05, at 9:04 AM, Duane wrote:

Great image Tim,

I can't wait to get my Mars bigger. I need to upgrade my camera.  

Alan is right about the

Unibrain. It creates a pattern on the image and you pretty much  

have to scale the image

50% to make it look good with this thing.

Anybody want to buy a Unibrain camera with adapter?

Right now I'm still having fun with it and learning my way around  

Astro IIDC.

Here is last nights endeavors:

http://homepage.mac.com/deal/subpages/astrophotos/planets/mars4.html

I have a bunch more that I haven't processed yet and I am thinking  

about processing them

all and if there is not too much rotation, stack them all together  

to see if I can overcome

that grid pattern. Then my image will be x2 the size it is now  

(maybe bigger if I can stretch

that). I just need the TIME!!!

Milton, this is a blast!

Duane

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