From: Phil Houston <pkh111@knology.net>

Date: December 22, 2007 10:33:50 AM MST

To: Astro_IIDC@yahoogroups.com

Subject: Mars Dec. 21

Hi All,

I have finished processing one set of images taken last night at about 11:45 EST.  This time a luminance layer was added to the RGB color image.  Two thousand frames were recorded for the luminence through an IR block filter and about 1000 frames were captured for each color.  A stack of 280 were processed for the L layer and about 200 for each color.  Final image asembly was done in Photoshop as was the multiple unsharp masking and Gaussian blurring.  Levels, curves and hue/saturation were adjusted also.

I have three more sets to process and a Moon image.  If any turn out well I will post them.

Wishing you all, Happy Holidays and of course good seeing,

Phil

http://www.knology.net/~pkh111/q6mars122107.jpg