From: Terrence Redding <tredding@mac.com>

Date: July 15, 2009 9:07:40 AM MDT

To: Astro_IIDC@yahoogroups.com

Subject: Re: [Astro_IIDC] I think this is my best Jupiter image so far!

Tim, I am not familiar with the camera you used - but assume it is a color firewire camera.  I notice they have them from 80 fps down to 7.5 fps.  I assume the higher frame rates are needed to freeze the rapid rotation of Jupiter, something like a 9.5 hour day.

But I would appreciate hearing comments on which cameras are best for which applications.  I am also interested in inserting a date/time stamp on the individual frames to support photometry.  Is there a system for doing that with firewire?

Terry - W6LMJ

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On Jul 15, 2009, at 9:47 AM, Tim wrote:

But I forgot to check the "notify" box when I uploaded it, so here it is:

http://f1.grp.yahoofs.com/v1/0NJdSpsXT-XxZMm72MhgpuzbRAOXrQTTduGcNu8Khts6IpdHmAiBUm7_bZZeoHz8JAEOkhaiV0sK6gNeUXVWNtcu5gsVGk_duPaZyE8h165r/Planetary/2009-07-15_121502_UT_TJP.jpg

I've just started stacking the movies, and I shot a bunch of movies. This was the first one processed.

For some reason, Astro IIDC is showing 0 frames at the 75% confidence level, with all 1001 frames represented by a single spike. So for now, until I figure out why, I'm letting it stack all the frames (the seeing was pretty good, after all).

-Tim.