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

Date: January 24, 2007 11:36:45 PM MST

To: Astro_IIDC@yahoogroups.com

Subject: Luna 5.33 days old - Sunrise on Posidonius and Theophilus


Hi Folks;


Seeing wasn't great (3 to 5 out of 10 for turbulence) at prime focus,

but it was clear, wind less, warm (+5°C) and I had to shoot quick

before the moon went behind that 30 story monster apartment to the

south west.


http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Astro_IIDC/files/Lunar/Luna_20070123_MJA.jpg


I shot 27 gigabytes of video with the "1032x776" Flea 2 FireWire 800

camera at prime Focsu (2000 mm), and then did 5 gigabyte of detailed

imaging of Posidonius with a 2x Barlow (4000 mm) using the Flea

640x480. Processed it all last night in batch mode with Astro IIDC

auto picking the features. Wound up re-aligning 3 movies (out of 28)

manually because it could not get a good feature lock and stacked < 30

(I wanted around 80). I composited the images in strips and then

re-assembled it all together in MyCompositor.


The original image is actually 2.5 times larger than this one (3038 x

4286 pixels), but to make it easier to work with, I re-sized it down

to 40%, rotated it, then anotated it in AppleWorks.


TTYL..


Milton Aupperle