From: Milton Aupperle <milton@outcastsoft.com>

Date: November 5, 2011 10:45:14 PM MDT

To: Astro_IIDC@yahoogroups.com

Subject: Re: [Astro_IIDC] end-to-end Astro IIDC

Hi Howard;

Very Nice and glad it worked for you. Thanks for sharing.

Did you try using MAP (Multiple Area Points - see pages 41 and 52 of the Astro IIDC 4.07.01 manual), as that will align individual areas on local features - producing sharper images, as shown here:

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Astro_IIDC/files/Other/SingleVersuMultipleMAP.jpg

PS:

I'm at hour 2.5 of a 6 hour photometric imaging session on "Euphrosyne", a 256 km diameter carbonaceous asteroid (15 second exposures so 4 images per minute). It's Mag 9.9 in brightness and has been tough finding good comparison stars with the small field of view of the Astro Tech 1625 mm scope. Camera is cooled to -16°C and ambient temp is -9·C tonight. Seeing is pretty good tonight (supposedly better tomorrow) and I might use the Color USB2 Chameleon to image jupiter at 2:30 am.

TTYL..

Milton J. Aupperle

On 5-Nov-11, at 9:19 PM, Howard wrote:

http://finkh.wordpress.com/2011/11/05/copernicus-to-tycho/

Conditions were ideal tonight.  This was shot and processed in Astro

IIDC.  Thanks, Milton.