From: Milton Aupperle <milton@outcastsoft.com>
Date: February 13, 2010 6:36:55 PM MST
To: Astro_IIDC@yahoogroups.com
Subject: Re: [Astro_IIDC] first Mars with decent seeing
Hi Antonio;
On 13-Feb-10, at 5:20 PM, aa27100 wrote:
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:
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...
Very nice image. Very good detail.
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...)
Yes. A quote from page 39 of the Astro IIDC manual:
It initially does a sharpness estimation , then sorts and rank the frames based on image sharpness, followed by aligning and stacking the frames that meet certain cutoff parameters.
Clicking in the red "gum drop" close button will cancel processing of the current movie and all remaining movies.
End Quote. So just close the window and it's stops the stacking process.
HTH..
Milton Aupperle