Posts Made By: Wesley Higgins

Hi,

For the last three years myself and a few other people have touted the advantages of imaging at high frames per second and now it looks like some pros are trying it although I think they could have come up with a better name than lucky imaging with a luckycamera , see link below

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/4456988.stm

Thanks,

Wes Higgins

Here is one not often imaged, Rimae Sulpicius Gallus located on the SW side of Mare Serenitatis the Montes Haemus mountain range is also in the image.
Rimae Sulpicius Gallus to me resembles a giant gash cut into the moon.

18" Reflector, Infinity 2-1M camera, 27fps, stack of 500 frames from an imaging session on 08/25/05.

Thanks,

Wes Higgins

Hi,

Like Paolo I have had very bad weather and seeing for over 50 days now and I have been going back to SEQ files that I had passed over the first time and processing some of them now this Archimedes image was taken on 08/25/05, I'm itching to go after Saturn if the weather would just cooperate >

18" Reflector, Infinity 2-1M camera, 23fps, stack of 314 frames.

Thanks,

Wes Higgins

Hi,

Imaged 10/10/05, 18" Reflector, Infinity 2-1M camera, 23fps, stack of 285 frames, image rotated for correct orientation.

Thanks,

Wes Higgins

Hi,

I've been pretty busy lately and have not been participating in the group like I should, the weather here in Oklahoma is still not conducive to good seeing, for about the last 30 days we have had high winds and many wild fires.
Here is another one from last August that I just processed.

18" Reflector, 11,000mm FL, Infinity 2-1m camera, 23fps, stack of 270 frames.

Thanks,

Wes Higgins

Hi,

The windy and dry weather we have had here in Oklahoma has ruined the seeing for the last 6 weeks or more so in order to stay in practice I'm processing some images I passed over the first time.
Hainzel always reminds me of a giant shoe print.

Imaged 07/29/05, 18" Reflector, DMK-21F04 camera, 30-fps, stack of 280 frames.

Thanks,

Wes Higgins

LPOD Lunar Photo Of the Day is back, Damian Peach has a great image today (01/18/06)

http://www.lpod.org/

Thanks,

Wes Higgins

Hi Alan,

Congratulations on your amazing Lunar Alps image making APOD, a very timely image with the Winter Olympics starting.

http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap060211.html

Thanks,

Wes Higgins

Hi,

If it's true that a picture is worth 1000 words then a video should be worth at least 10000 words
I agree with Alan that visual seeing ratings have little to do with rating seeing conditions with the current video imaging being done and I also agree with Alan that seeing ratings are not very useful in video imaging.
One thing IMO that can be useful in evaluating digital imaging is a short raw video clip of the video used for the image, the problem with that though is even when compressed the short video streams are still very large.

Below are some URL's to a few of my better video streams, I'm not sure what interest these are other than to show the best seeing I have had at my location, most of the videos I take at my location are not this good and later I plan on showing some of what I consider to be average video streams.

You will need the DIVX video codec to view these.

Fra Mauro, 10 Sec. raw video 11/05/04
http://higginsandsons.com/astro/images/Fra_Mauro_11-05-04_a30_10SecAVI.avi

Saturn 5 Sec. raw video 10/23/03
http://higginsandsons.com/astro/images/clipone_Saturn_10-23-03.avi

Mars 10 Sec. raw video 08/23/03
This mars video was taken with Mars only at a 39 degree elevation
http://higginsandsons.com/astro/images/Mars_10sec2_08-23-03.avi


Thanks,

Wes Higgins

Hi Robert,

Very! nice Jupiter image, if Jupiter had been at a 60 degree altitude or more IMO your image would had been as good as any posted this year so far,
oh well I guess we are going to have to wait about five years for that

Thanks,

Wes Higgins