From: "Raoul Schlesser" <gr842@yahoo.com>

Date: April 19, 2006 8:58:24 PM MDT

To: Astro_IIDC@yahoogroups.com

Subject: Saturn/DMK21BF04 & Fire-i/Astro IIDC 3.0 Beta

Folks:

one more Saturn a bit late in the season:

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Astro_IIDC/files/Planetary/saturn_20060419_RS.jpg

Lately I have been using my DMK21BF04 BW camera at f/40 on the C9.25, in combination 

with a Fire-i color camera at f/25. Since the color camera is less sensitive, even f/25 is a bit 

of a stretch at times, but it seems to work OK as a simple means to acquire color data.

The BW stream was aligned using the new manual alignment feature in the upcoming version 

3.0 of Astro IIDC. The two ansae were aligned separately, and re-assembled in PS CS. Giving 

the user an option to manually select several alignment areas in the same image is a very 

useful feature, as it allows for best alignment accuracy, even under less than ideal seeing 

conditions.

Thanks for looking,

raoul