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

Date: February 21, 2008 10:05:12 AM MST

To: Astro_IIDC@yahoogroups.com

Subject: Lunar Eclipse Feb 20, 2008

Hi Folks;

We had clear steady skies here last night for the eclipse. I set up a

Flea 2 1030 x 776 color camera with a cheap second hand 200 mm F4 M42

mount telephoto on the HEQ5 mount and then recorded the entire thing.

I used an Apple script to control Astro IIDC 4, which grabbed a 20

second long movie once per minute and turned out to be about 20

gigabytes of video over the 2.8 hour event.

I batch stacked and auto aligned the 173 movies last night while I

slept and then picked 4 frames from them to make this collage this

morning.

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Astro_IIDC/files/Lunar/LunarEclipse20080220MJA.jpg

I plan on eventually turning the 173 frames into a 20 to 30 second movie.

TTYL..

Milton Aupperle