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Posts Made By: Stephen Fugardi

November 9, 2007 02:56 AM Forum: CCD Imaging and Processing/Solar System

Solar System Tourist Montage

Posted By Stephen Fugardi
Jason, Excellent montage! Congradulations on getting Neptune, that one's tough being so dim and low in the sky. thanks

Regards,
Steve

November 10, 2007 02:03 PM Forum: CCD Imaging and Processing/Solar System

Mercury f25 11/8 Above Avg Seeing

Posted By Stephen Fugardi
I rotated the image and used deconvolution on the original 277 frame image to sharpen it.

Regards,
Steve

November 11, 2007 01:21 PM Forum: CCD Imaging and Processing/Solar System

Mercury 9/7/07

Posted By Stephen Fugardi
Dan, great Mercury shot! According to calsky.com, the transit ocurred at 1:59pm on 9/7 at approx 47deg in altitude. All this time, I have been trying to image the planet in the 12-15deg ranges at dawn, ending up a ton of atmospheric seeing noise. Did you first pick up Mercury early in the morning or were you able to slew directly to it in the afternoon?

Regards.
Steve

November 18, 2007 01:09 PM Forum: CCD Imaging and Processing/Solar System

HST Holmes in on comet!

Posted By Stephen Fugardi
Dan, Comet images from this forum blow that HST shot away. Maybe you should try to tweak the HST image. smile

Regards,
Steve

November 19, 2007 03:06 PM Forum: CCD Imaging and Processing/Solar System

Blue light on Mars! 11/18/07

Posted By Stephen Fugardi
Dan, Could the blue light be some kind of swirling CO2 snowstorm refracting in the light? I am not sure if the martian polar ice is solid or powdery. Your incredible patience really paid for this one. Nice capture!

Regards,
Steve

November 20, 2007 04:22 PM Forum: CCD Imaging and Processing/Solar System

Mars. Nov 19 from murrumbateman

Posted By Stephen Fugardi
Anthony, awesome shot especially at that altitude! I see you collect an extra 30sec of the red channel and then blend with IR. Is that to improve detail? Also do you stack the same number of frames for each of the "R",G,B channels? Thanks!

Regards,
Steve

November 25, 2007 02:17 PM Forum: CCD Imaging and Processing/Solar System

Mars 11/23/07

Posted By Stephen Fugardi
Dan, Great shot! You are a brave soul for battling the cold with below average seeing. I had a chance Sat AM with 18degF in below avg conditions and chickened out. The next 10days aren't looking good either. You'd think a couple of decent nights in the next month wouldn't be asking for too much

Regards,
Steve


December 5, 2007 05:23 PM Forum: CCD Imaging and Processing/Solar System

Saturn's rings "tilted 15 degrees"

Posted By Stephen Fugardi
Dan, great shot! You can actually see the globe through the top part of the Cassini separation. What time of the morning did you take the avi? Thanks for posting

Regards,
Steve

PS: CSC is predicting avg/above avg seeing Thursday night. I've got 38G of free space on my hard drive ready to go

December 7, 2007 03:39 PM Forum: CCD Imaging and Processing/Solar System

Mars f45, 12/7/07

Posted By Stephen Fugardi
Here is the screen shot from Metaguide using the double stacked barlow imaging a 50um artificial star approx 118feet away located in a clearing of my tick infested woods. The calculation calls for at least 90ft to be defraction limited, theoretically anyway. My scope seems to hold the collimation well lately, so hopefully this is my last one for awhile. Not sure if anyone else is using MetaGuide for webcam collimation. Here's a link http://www.astrogeeks.com/Bliss/MetaGuide/ plus there is a Yahoo Users group for MG http://www.astrogeeks.com/Bliss/MetaGuide/

Regards,
Steve

December 7, 2007 07:07 PM Forum: CCD Imaging and Processing/Solar System

Mars Dec 5, 2007

Posted By Stephen Fugardi
Paul, Excellent images. The details in your RGB images are very sharp. Please send some of you good seeing eastward...

Regards,
Steve

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