From: Alan Friedman <alan@greatarrow.com>

Date: June 7, 2012 12:56:44 PM MDT

To: Astro_IIDC@yahoogroups.com

Subject: Re: [Astro_IIDC] My last TOV posting!

Hi Jim,

Spending a couple of days in Santa Monica… first time back in LA in 25 years so quite a few folks to see before I head home and work on pictures. I posted a single frame with a bit of sharpening from one of my better streams from Mount Wilson. Did you see this preliminary shot:

http://www.avertedimagination.com/images/stillframe4.47pdt.jpg

I have 182 GB in 8bit video to sift through… hopefully a few good pics in there somewhere!

cheers,

Alan

Alan Friedman

avertedimagination.com

On Jun 7, 2012, at 1:39 PM, Jim Chung wrote:

Thanks Alan! When can we expect to see your "masterpiece"?

Jim

Quoting Alan Friedman <alan@greatarrow.com>:

> Not tired at all... keep posting the great images Jim!
>
> cheers,
> Alan
>
> Alan Friedman
> avertedimagination.com
>
>
>
>
> On Jun 7, 2012, at 12:00 PM, matt carmine wrote:
>
>> I'm sure we're all getting tired of seeing TOV postings so I
>> promise this is my
>> last one!
>>
>> I tried not to
>> process this image too much since things like oversharpening artefacts can
>> create false halos but I think you can see a very dim brighter
>> outline that may
>> correspond to atmospheric refraction of the part of Venus still
>> within the dark
>> corona of the Sun.
>>
>> http://dl.dropbox.com/u/4852049/VenusAtmosphere.jpg
>>
>> And here's my final image with a solar mosaic and second contact
>> using the famous Alan Friedman inverted gray scale scheme to better
>> show off surface details.
>>
>> http://dl.dropbox.com/u/4852049/TOVfinal.jpg
>>
>> I find solar mosaics with the PST really difficult to put together
>> because the
>> PST has a well known "hot spot" where the image is especially sharp
>> so its hard
>> to get an even appearance in the final product.
>>
>> Jim
>>
>>
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