From: "Howard" <howard.fink@nyu.edu>

Date: November 3, 2009 9:45:08 AM MST

To: Astro_IIDC@yahoogroups.com

Subject: First light Scorpion and the Full Moon

Full Moon last night and clear skies.  I set up on my roof, and took sixeen exposures in an hour:  20Gb monochrome.  I am very happy using Astro IIDC for capture.  ETX 125, scorpion 1.4Mp camera, focal reducer to f7.5.  Conditions are a bit too extreme in Manhattan to stack the .mov, or I haven't picked the right settings, so I export the .mov files to .avi no compression.  These are saved to an external drive and I reboot the mac to Windows 7 and run registax 5 to stack.  Saving as tif, it's back to the mac for Photoshop.  I was most interested in getting the rays well defined without blowing out Aristarchus.  You can find the image in the photo album finkh.

Only the original shows the details.

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Astro_IIDC/photos/album/275060372/pic/894731450/view?picmode=original&mode=tn&order=ordinal&start=1&dir=asc

1200 frames captured, 900 stacked.