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

Date: October 18, 2005 3:25:58 PM MDT

To: Astro_IIDC@yahoogroups.com

Subject: Re: This is a blast!

Yea, I noticed that file. That was a brilliant idea! I am terrible at logging my own work. It

was nice to know that it was all getting taken care of while I was changing settings last

night. Now I can let everything process and see what turns out best.

Regarding the filed rotation, I didn't even level the tripod which is why the rotation was so

bad. I'm not sure how long the shots where, but I was dabbling with my 5x powermate and

had a lot of magnification. I was then using the guide speed to keep the area I wanted

centered in the same location. This was causing loads of rotation. After I got serious and

leveled the mount and polar aligned it was great, but then I started shooting Mars.

Maybe I'll shoot the Moon tonight... Or maybe I'll sleep.

Thanks again,

Duane

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

Hi Duane;

On 18-Oct-05, at 12:15 PM, Duane wrote:

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.

Unless you threw it out, it's still available for you in a text file,

20050911_154923_L.txt

the actual name of the text file will vary, depending on the date

time you started grabbing images and movies at.

Open the text file and it lists everything you did when you took the

images or movies (and any notes you want added too), like

=================== File:20050911_154921.51_L.tiff

Color Camera - Model:'Flea' SerialNumber: 0x448438

Gamma: 1.00

Blue Gain: 75

Red Gain: 63

Brightness: 1023

Black Point: 255

Exposure: 10.00 seconds

Sharpness Limiting On: 0

Dark Frame Subtraction On: 0

Flat Frame Correction On: 0

Invert Image On: 0

Flip Horizontal On: 0

Flip Vertical On: 0

Binning Off Color

For movies, it lists how many frames were recorded too

=================== File:20051012_003625_L.mov #frames 1042

Color Camera - Model:'Flea' SerialNumber: 0x448438

Gamma: 0.97

Blue Gain: 77

Red Gain: 47

Brightness: 645

Black Point: 0

Exposure: 33.33 ms

Sharpness Limiting On: 0

Dark Frame Subtraction On: 0

Flat Frame Correction On: 0

Invert Image On: 0

Flip Horizontal On: 0

Flip Vertical On: 0

Binning Off Color

Knowing what the above settings are helps out a lot in figuring out

what is wrong.

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?

Nope it doesn't rotate or compensate for field rotation. How long was

your total movie recording time then, because if your picking up

field rotation that seems a bit odd.

HTH..

Milton J. Aupperle

President

ASC - Aupperle Services and Contracting

Mac Software (Drivers, Components and Application) Specialist

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