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

Date: October 22, 2005 5:57:59 PM MDT

To: Astro_IIDC@yahoogroups.com

Subject: Re: Four Hour Mars sequence

Nice shots! That's a lot of work you've put into that.

It's clouded over here pretty good. Clear Sky Clock says it might clear up for maybe an 

hour or two tonight but then I'm looking at clouds until Wednesday.

I hope you all have clearer skies than I.

Duane

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

Hi Folks;

I batch processed the 15.2 gigabytes of Mars video I shot last

night/morning over supper, and just finnished up processing them in

Astro IIDC (sharpness, log stretch, brightness and color balance).

Check out :

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Astro_IIDC/files/Planetary/Mars_2005_10_21_MJA.jpg

That is a composite of 4 hours of Mars at 15 minute intervals (12 am

to 4am MST local) I caught very good detail considering I'm using a

MAK 127 mm 5.1 scope. 

Seeing was very good last night and looks like it might be the even

better tonight, as there is no light thin cloud / haze. A little

chilly (-5°C), but nothing bone numbing like our -40°C winter months.

Seeing started dropping off at around 3:30 am so I packed it in.

Enjoy the images..

Milton Aupperle