From: Willie Strickland <cwskas@earthlink.net>

Date: February 12, 2010 12:03:57 AM MST

To: Astro_IIDC@yahoogroups.com

Subject: capture and stacking info for 20100207_055621_49PL.tif

Here are the capture log and the stack log info for the 20100207_055621_49PL image (the better of the two images I posted on 2-7) in case anyone is interested.  I tried a lot of different options stacking.  I believe this is the one that I used.

I also attached a screenshot showing the image processing settings I used.

Alan, I did not get any color data that night, I sure which I had taken the time.  Dew (and frost actually) were pretty bad by the time I got around to imaging.  It was open house night at the observatory and we were busy with guests earlier in the evening.

Willie

Capture Log

=================== File:20100207_055621_U.mov #frames 820

Monochrome Camera = Model:'DMx 21AF04.AS' SerialNumber: 0xFED2BB

IIDC Format: 0 Mode: 5 FrameRate: 15.00

Camera Display Format: 640 x 480 8 bit

CCD Image Left: 0

CCD Image Top: 0

CCD Image Width: 640

CCD Image: Height 480

Gamma: 1.00

Brightness: 801

Black Point: 0

Exposure: 66.67 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

Stacking Log

----Processing Movie: 20100207_055621_U.mov 1 of 1

Stacking : 8 Bit Movie

CI Cutoff: 49 

Aligned Using: Luma Channel

Gross Alignment: Planetary

Pixel Alignment: Horizontal and Vertical Separate

Pixel Alignment Block Size: 64 x 64 pixels

Pixel Matching Tolerance :  6.00

Scale Frames by: 1 x

Frame Sharpening: Light with Noise Reduction

Gaussian Blur sharpness and alignment frames: Off

Sharpen alignment frames: Off

Auto Histogram Expand alignment frames: Off

HighQuality Bayer:Off

Auto Clip Area: On

Adjust Pixel Comparison Area Brightness: Off

Remove Hot & Cold Pixels: Off

Binning Frames 2x2: Off

Averaging Images

Subtracting Background: Off

Sharpness Statistics: Min 5.010891 , Max 5.246285 , STD0.041267 , Mean 5.146528 , Median 5.146059 , Mode 5.146059, CutOff  Value 5.144235

Pixel Matching Value:  6.00

Main Image Centroid   X:456.3, Y:320.9

Pixel Area One  X:348.3, Y:322.9

Pixel Area Two   X:403.3, Y:223.9

Stacked 352 out of 820 frames