From: Milton Aupperle <milton@outcastsoft.com>
Date: June 18, 2006 11:03:42 AM MDT
To: Astro_IIDC@yahoogroups.com
Subject: Re: [Astro_IIDC] Jupiter June 15
Really nice shots Phil.
Amazing amount of detail.
Milton J. Aupperle
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On 17-Jun-06, at 12:16 AM, Phil Houston wrote:
Here's another Jupiter image, this one showing Ganymede's shadow and
Io off tho the right of the planet. Imaging information follows.
Time - 10;06 PM EDT - June 15, 2006
Location - St. Petersburg, FL
Seeing - 8/10
Temperature - 81 F
Winds calm
Telescope - OTI Quantum 6, 2X Barlow, operating at F/42 ( roughly 6
meters) producing an image diameter of 283 pixels for 42.3" arc
planet . (.149 arc sec./pixel)
Camera - DMK 31AF03 - monochrome CCD
Luminance Frame
Stack of 458/1019
Gamma: 1.30
Brightness: 756
Black Point: 0
Exposure: 66.67 ms
RGB Frames
Stack of 100/200
Gamma: 1.30
Brightness: 818
Black Point: 0
Exposure: 133.33 ms
Image processing:
Astro IIDC - Planetary, No fine alignment, 2X resampled
Photoshop - Levels, Unsharp mask, Gaussian blur, RGB image was
produced, adjusted, and layered on the luminance image, final image
size was reduced.
http://www.knology.net/~pkh111/astrophotos/Q6jupiter.html
Next time I will try Milton's and Alan's imaging and processing
suggestions.
Phil