From: Alan Friedman <alan@greatarrow.com>

Date: August 11, 2009 7:43:03 AM MDT

To: Astro_IIDC@yahoogroups.com

Subject: Re: [Astro_IIDC] Re: settings used

Hi Willy,

Following are the logs from capture and stacking of the red filtered file from my recently posted Jupiter image. It's been two years since I've worked on a Jupiter image - I am still experimenting with the workflow. I did find it helpful to increase the gamma above neutral to add a little contrast to the clouds features for alignment in stacking (this is less necessary in green and blue.) 

best,

Alan

=================== File:20090807_012029_L.mov #frames 851

Monochrome Camera = Model:'DMx 21AF04.AS' SerialNumber: 0x39FCEF

CCD Image Left: 0

CCD Image Top: 0

CCD Image Width: 640

CCD Image: Height 480

Gamma: 1.22

Brightness: 961

Black Point: 0

Exposure: 33.33 ms

Sharpness Limiting On: 0

Dark Frame Subtraction On: 0

Flat Frame Correction On: 0

Invert Image On: 0

Flip Horizontal On: 0

Flip Vertical On: 0

Histogram Expand On: 0

Binning Off Monochrome

----Processing Movie: 20090807_012029_L.mov 1 of 1

Stacking : 8 Bit Movie

CI Cutoff: 60 

Aligned Using: Luma Channel

Gross Alignment: Planetary

Pixel Alignment: Manual Selection

Pixel Alignment Block Size: 96 x 96 pixels

Pixel Matching Tolerance :  7.50

Scale Frames by: 1 x

Frame Sharpening: None

Gaussian Blur sharpness and alignment frames: On

Sharpen alignment frames: Off

Auto Histogram Expand alignment frames: Off

HighQuality Bayer:Off

Auto Clip Area: Off

Adjust Pixel Comparison Area Brightness: Off

Remove Hot & Cold Pixels: Off

Binning Frames 2x2: Off

Averaging Images

Subtracting Background: Off

Sharpness Statistics: Min 1.695850 , Max 1.765897 , STD0.009861 , Mean 1.732973 , Median 1.732789 , Mode 1.732789, CutOff  Value 1.738451

Pixel Matching Value:  7.50

Exported 241 frames to Sharpest Reference Movie

Minimum # frames for each Stack to be added to MAP: 70 percent is 168 frames

Multiple Areas: # 1 of 3

Main Image Centroid   X:380.2, Y:242.4

Pixel Area One  X:461.2, Y:235.4

Stacked 241 out of 851 frames

Multiple Areas: # 2 of 3

Main Image Centroid   X:380.2, Y:242.4

Pixel Area One  X:338.2, Y:194.4

Stacked 241 out of 851 frames

MAP Copy Area: 192 x 192 pixels

Multiple Areas: # 3 of 3

Main Image Centroid   X:380.2, Y:242.4

Pixel Area One  X:279.2, Y:308.4

Stacked 241 out of 851 frames

MAP Copy Area: 192 x 192 pixels

Multiple Areas: Last one MAP Composite Image