From: Willie Strickland <cwskas@earthlink.net>

Date: August 29, 2009 4:08:56 AM MDT

To: “A-IIDC“ <Astro_IIDC@yahoogroups.com>

Subject: my first color Jupiter

This is the result of 1000 frames each with Meade LRGB + IR blocker.  They were captured using a USB DMK41AU02 and the DMK capture software.  Initial stacking done with Registax, I dont know how many frames were used for each stack.  I took the masters, processed & combined them with AstroIIDC for this final result.

We have Robert Reeves as a guest at the observatory this weekend and it was his camera that we used for capture and he did the Registax stuff.  It was really cool to see the details come out in processing.

Seeing was pretty poor most of the night.  I would say no more than 4 out of 10.  We focused as best we could and took lots of frames.  I took flat frames after processing this image and it being obvious that I needed to do some flat correction.  I will reprocess again later and see if I can do better with calibrated files.

Seeing seemed to improve a bit around 230 am for just a short time and we took more movies, but I havent done anything with them yet either.

Willie Strickland

willie@igc.org