From: "Alan Friedman" <alan@greatarrow.com>

Date: October 28, 2006 4:03:16 PM MDT

To: <Astro_IIDC@yahoogroups.com>

Subject: Re: [Astro_IIDC] New Lunar Image

Reply-To: <alan@greatarrow.com>


Hi Milton -


I like your new wide mosaic a lot - I think it is one of your best - the 

processing is very well done. Using the C8 at 8 meter focal length will 

require really good seeing conditions, I think. I've found a focal length 

about 7 meters to be optimum on the moon with my 255mm mak.


Tim and Walter - great new deep sky images from you. 


I had one good night for lunar imaging late in the summer. I spent that 

early morning doing 9 panel sweeps of a number of regions. I chose to 

hand select the frames on these so that I could prioritize the sharpness 

in a region of interest for each frame. The processing is going SLOW 

(and our devastating storm from Oct 13 hasn't helped matters much). 

The finished images are posted on the latest image page of my 

website. 


http://www.avertedimagination.com/latest_1.htm


The copernicus region image is probably my best lunar shot to date. I 

have a few more to complete then its off to more average data from 

October.


best wishes -

Alan



---------- Original Message ----------------------------------

From: "Milton Aupperle" <milton@outcastsoft.com>

Reply-To: Astro_IIDC@yahoogroups.com

Date:  Sat, 28 Oct 2006 21:27:01 -0000


Hi folks;


I took this the second night that I could use the new C8 scope.