From: "aa27100" <antonio.agnesi@unipv.it>

Date: February 13, 2010 5:20:39 PM MST

To: Astro_IIDC@yahoogroups.com

Subject: first Mars with decent seeing

Hi,

last night this unusually cloudy winter has given me the third (!) clear night to attempt Mars imaging with my Mewlon 180: the seeing was reasonally good as I discerned the Airy pattern around stars at 440x quite clearly around the central disk, though with some mild turbolence, confirming the scope alignement and raising expectation of imaging at the diffraction limit. This is my best effort to date:

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Astro_IIDC/photos/album/837073898/pic/1464274413/view?picmode=&mode=tn&order=ordinal&start=1&count=20&dir=asc

I know LRGB (L=IR) is not very recommended for accurate color rendition of atmospheric details but this yields the higher contrast and surface detail, however the RGB version is on the way...

Milton, is there a way to stop Astro IIDC execution without quitting when it runs extremely slowly on a stacking process? (sometime I try "dangerous" values for stacking parameters trying to improve the final result: it is always annoying to wait or to quit the program and restarting it when the DMK camera is not at hand...)

Thanks for any comment/suggestion!

Cheers,

Antonio

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