From: Milton Aupperle <milton@outcastsoft.com>

Date: June 2, 2006 12:11:40 AM MDT

To: Astro_IIDC@yahoogroups.com

Subject: Re: [Astro_IIDC] Astro IIDC 3.00.01 available

Hi Phil;

On 1-Jun-06, at 8:46 PM, Phil Houston wrote:

Thanks for the quick fix, I sure am glad I wasn't imaging between 12:00 and 2:00 last night!

Unfortunately (for me - not for everyone else), I was out imaging then. I was shooting M5 and the clouds rolled in at around 1 am, so I packed it in and then decided to stack and align what I just shot. Ran into the bug, had to recompile Astro IIDC, test it on a second Mac to make sure it was actually fixed, then create the dmg installer, then update the web site and finally upload everything. Makes for a late night.

Last Saturday night I was treated to a night of good seeing and took the opportunity to image Jupiter through a 3.5" Maksutov and a Quantum 6 scope. I put together a short animation showing the transit of Europa and a hint of Red Jr. I used Quicktime to make a movie from 16 LRGB images, you can find it at the following address. This was very time consuming and i will be looking for a way to automate the process!

http://www.knology.net/~pkh111/astrophotos/Movie.html

Phenomenal shots for a 3.5" scope. I was thinking about adding alignment and animation tools Astro IIDC 4. I built a hacked version of Astro IIDC which generated the raw Mars movie footage (not the labeling etc.)

http://www.outcastsoft.com/AstroImages/Mars_2005_Rotating.mov

I used a much earlier version to align these frames of the Jupiter triple shadow event into a movie (236 final frames - total of 59,000 processed)

http://www.outcastsoft.com/AstroImages/JOV_TRIP_MOON_04_03_27_SOR3.mov

and this double shadow one too:

http://www.outcastsoft.com/AstroImages/Jupiter_04_03_20.mov

Write up on what went into them is described in the 2004 Movies and Images section at

http://www.outcastsoft.com/AstroImages/AstroIndex.html

Also, I captured a few decent images with the Quantum scope that can be seen a the bottom of the following page.

http://www.knology.net/~pkh111/astrophotos/Q6jupiter.html

Again great shots and thanks for sharing.

Milton J. Aupperle

President

ASC - Aupperle Services and Contracting

Mac Software (Drivers, Components and Application) Specialist

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