From: Alan Friedman <alan@greatarrow.com>

Date: February 20, 2010 3:10:50 PM MST

To: Astro_IIDC@yahoogroups.com

Subject: Re: [Astro_IIDC] Re: Mars with a 74" reflector!!!!!!!

Hi Jim,

I can't make out the individual frames in this file, but the contrast in the lead frame seems very low. I would love to see the video you captured sometime if you have a chance to burn it to disk.

BTW, I will be speaking for the Hamilton club on April 9th... perhaps some from Toronto might be interested in coming down?

best,

Alan

On Feb 20, 2010, at 3:55 PM, jimchung2338 wrote:

Thanks Milton & Alan,

You know, I tried stacking automatically and hand selecting sharper frames and still really poor results. I don't get it either. So I shrank and downloaded 1 second of footage for you guys to study. The raw stuff looks promising but after stacking I can't really get any great improvement with sharpening tools.

1 second of red channel f=35m

http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/Astro_IIDC/files/Planetary/MarsDDO.m4v

And here's a stack of the red channel:

http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/Astro_IIDC/files/Planetary/20100219_225559_LRed.mov_56PM.tif

Jim