From: "Tim" <tjp314@pacbell.net>

Date: February 7, 2009 9:43:05 AM MST

To: Astro_IIDC@yahoogroups.com

Subject: Re: "lucky imaging"

--- In Astro_IIDC@yahoogroups.com, "Doug" <dwd3m@...> wrote:

Yeah - I'd say that that is what we do with already by capturing

many images at rapid 

frame rate and then select, stack and process?  "Lucky Astro IIDC"

imaging.....  In any 

event, the trick is having a good software package and that is what

Milton has done for us 

Mac folks - am I missing something else?

Doug

No, looks like that's it!  ;oD

I got curious about the sidebar article that shows an imaging train

with a Pt Grey Flea and a mess of other stuff, including an image

intensifier.

I started wondering if anybody's thought of imaging Uranus and Neptune

(heck, even Pluto) with an intensifier to allow keeping the individual

frames short.  I've shot Uranus with my 12.5" Cass, but it's still

faint enough that the exposures (albeit using a color Flea) are long

enough that getting a number of good frames is difficult and requires

good seeing.

-Tim.