From: "matt carmine" <jim_chung@sunshine.net>

Date: June 7, 2011 4:45:29 AM MDT

To: Astro_IIDC@yahoogroups.com

Subject: Was More solar images from the weekend, now AstroIIDC stacking results

After the humiliating 8-1 defeat of Boston over Vancouver (I lived in Vancouver for 7 years and saw them through the 1994 campaign), I needed something to restore my faith in the world.

Taking Milton's excellent suggestion of stacking with histogram expansion on, sharpening of subs, a 64x64 area with pixel variance of 7 and choosing 11 MAPs, I stacked about 60 of the best out of 300 frames.  The result was stunningly improved (right side is original effort):

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/4852049/AR11228compared.jpg

What was even more impressive is that because I don't use MAPs very often I didn't realize AstroIIDC had evolved to the point where it even makes a blended MAP image.  I was expecting I would have to assemble my own in PS.

Great work Milton!!!!

Jim