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Posts Made By: Wesley Higgins

January 26, 2005 06:57 PM Forum: CCD Imaging and Processing/Solar System

Rima Hyginus x2

Posted By Wesley Higgins
Hi,

Here are two images of Rima Hyginus (both not posted here before) one was taken on
12/03/04 under good seeing conditions with a 5x Barlow and the other on 01/17/05
under fair seeing with a 4x Barlow.
Both images are stacks of 1000 frames and taken with an 18" Starmaster and a DMK-21F04 Camera, it is interesting to compare the better seeing conditions of the
12/03/04 image to the 01/17/05 image.

As an interesting side note Paolo and I were out imaging the moon on the same night (Jan. 17 2005) and we imaged some of the same craters and Rima Hyginus was one of them.

Thanks,

Wes Higgins

January 29, 2005 05:36 PM Forum: CCD Imaging and Processing/Solar System

Plato in shadow

Posted By Wesley Higgins
Hi,

A very low sun angle image of Plato.

I intentionally over brightened and processed this image to bring out the
crater floor detail that was hidden by shadow, the extra processing has
created some unavoidable contour lines around the perimeter of the crater.
Note the darker floor at the left end of the crater and if you look close
I think there are a few rills at the lower left, in this lighting the larger
craterlets take on an almost dome like appearance and can you see the Windows
Logo in the shadows at the upper right of the crater smile .
The image has been enlarged 30 percent and may look soft on monitors with
a resolution below 1280x1024.

18" Starmaster Newtonian Reflector, DMK-21F04 Fire camera, 30FPS, stack of
950 frames from 1800.

Thanks,

Wes Higgins

January 30, 2005 03:09 PM Forum: CCD Imaging and Processing/Solar System

Re: Best Opposition Saturn

Posted By Wesley Higgins
Hi Damian,

Beautiful!! image with all the major features of Saturn showing up very! well, thanks for posting.

Clear And Steady Skies,

Wes Higgins

January 30, 2005 03:22 PM Forum: CCD Imaging and Processing/Solar System

Re: Saturn, January 28, 2005

Posted By Wesley Higgins
Hi Eric,

Wonderful! image, I'm glad to see you got some good seeing again and it looks like you took advantage of it, get some rest and get well soon so you can share more images like this smile

Clear And Steady Skies,

Wes Higgins

January 31, 2005 01:46 PM Forum: CCD Imaging and Processing/Solar System

Yellow Ferrari

Posted By Wesley Higgins
Hey Paolo is that your scope I see in the passenger seat of the yellow Ferrari 360 Spider in todays Astromart Picture of the day smile smile wink


Clear And Steady Skies,

Wes Higgins

February 5, 2005 02:14 PM Forum: CCD Imaging and Processing/Solar System

Re: new webpage created with Saturn/ Jupiter image

Posted By Wesley Higgins
Hi Eric,

Very nice job on your web page and some great images, your last Saturn image was amazing.

Thanks,

Wes Higgins

February 5, 2005 04:58 PM Forum: CCD Imaging and Processing/Solar System

Archimedes

Posted By Wesley Higgins
Hi,

For this image I did two separate alignments one on the west side(left) and the other
on the east or right side and then cropped the images with some overlap and combined them into one image, IMO this produced a sharper image when compared to just one alignment.

12/04/04 18" Newtonian Reflector, DMK-21F04 Firewire camera. 30FPS, stack of 1000
frames from 2350.

Thanks,

Wes Higgins

February 14, 2005 01:48 PM Forum: CCD Imaging and Processing/Solar System

Re: Saturn on February 7th 2005.

Posted By Wesley Higgins
Hi Damian,

Superb! image, great band detail, I noticed you mentioned mist/haze I have some of my best seeing during hazy days, I long for those hazy days of Summer smile

Clear And Steady Skies,

Wes Higgins

February 15, 2005 01:43 AM Forum: CCD Imaging and Processing/Solar System

Lunar crater Lambert

Posted By Wesley Higgins
Hi,

Lunar crater Lambert and the ghost crater Lambert R (the filled in crater at the bottom right )number 78 in the Lunar 100

Starmaster 18" Newt. Reflector , FL=8200mm, no filters, 11-05-04, DMK-21F04 Firewire camera, 30FPS, stack of 804 frames from 1250.

Thanks,

Wes Higgins

February 17, 2005 11:43 PM Forum: CCD Imaging and Processing/Solar System

Re: Rimae Triesnecker

Posted By Wesley Higgins
HI Damian,

Great image, there is wealth of detail there, I'm glad to see you posting some Lunar images too smile

Thanks,

Wes Higgins

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