From: "Steve Bryson" <stevebeam@yahoo.com>

Date: October 24, 2005 12:06:08 AM MDT

To: Astro_IIDC@yahoogroups.com

Subject: newbie with webcam

Hi folks - I'm joining the webcam party, and am very happy with 

Astro IIDC and my new Unibrain Fire-i monochrome board camera.  

Astro IIDC controls are great.

My first pictures of the moon are at

http://homepage.mac.com/stevepur/firei_astrophotos.htm

Comments welcome.

I look forward to making many more.  Also waiting for the

return of clear weather to try Mars.

I have some feature requests: 

- a graph over time of sharpness, with an indicator of recent 

max, to aid focusing. 

- a graph of image luminance through the image centroid, also 

to aid focusing.

- other focus metrics?  I use full width at half max for a Gaussian

fitted to a star image in a program I wrote for DSLRs 

(iAstroPhoto).  

This is just a wish list, Astro IIDC is a great program as is.  

Keep up the good work and thanks for contributing to the

astronomy on mac community

Steve

http://homepage.mac.com/stevepur