From: Mark Gaffney <markgaffney@me.com>

Date: December 3, 2009 4:13:42 PM MST

To: Astro_IIDC@yahoogroups.com

Subject: Re: [Astro_IIDC] Re: new attempt at last month`s Full Moon...

Hi Alan, 

I did save it! I`ll check if I`ve posted it to my Mark`s moon shots folder & put it there if it`s not already. I don`t know what the resolution problem was with that night`s images?Maybe you`re right I selected some form of binning? The elements of the mosaic were from different ROI sizes too I think! I had so much to play with on this first night with the new camera I`ve confused myself! I have taken some moons since with the Scorpion at prime focus & with a barlow on the 24th November (not full moon this time!) which seem fairly OK. Those ones from the 8th November were taken with a Mogg reducer (f 0.3x) I think. With processing that full moon again I`ll have to first return to my original stacks & alter them (following your lead) & if that dosen`t work I`ve found the original movies (dropped mistakenly into an entirely different folder on my Lacie HD!). Processing that mosaic again (the recent effort) I started with one of the washed out mosaic images I still had, which Milton says is too grainy (especially when zoomed) to start with, so I must have oversharpened it at some stage..I was following (roughly) Milton`s contrast settings on his new full moon..

Back to the drawing board!

Mark.

On 04/12/2009, at 9:35 AM, Alan Friedman wrote:

Hi Mark,

I didn't save the tweak of your image that I posted in early November. This image appears to be have too much contrast and blown out white levels. It is also very low resolution for some reason, as if you'd shot it with the pixels binned? It doesn't look as bad if you reduce it to 50%, but of course, why would you want to do that?

best,

Alan

On Dec 3, 2009, at 5:29 PM, Mark Gaffney wrote:

Hi Milton, 

I wasn`t being rude I was just wondering if Alan`s re-done version of one of my original stacks which he posted freely here had the same grainy texture in your opinion. I assume the original stacks are alright & that the graininess was introduced by me after doing the mosaic. With the saved version of the mosaic I have I did notice when it`s zoomed in Astro IIDC`s processing window it`s not very pretty!

Mark.

On 04/12/2009, at 8:57 AM, Milton Aupperle wrote:

Mark;

On 3-Dec-09, at 1:27 PM, Mark Gaffney wrote:

You didn`t refer to my question along the way as to whether in Alan`s resurrected image made from one of mine he`d removed the graininess?

Why not ask him how he did it.

Was this because his alterations were done in the (foreign to you) app. Photoshop?I w! as having trouble with PS until recently where it wouldn`t let me back track if I made 2 steps 

Ask him, I'm not clairvoyant.

Later..

Milton J. Aupperle