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Posts Made By: Stephen Fugardi

December 31, 2007 05:17 PM Forum: CCD Imaging and Processing/Solar System

Mars (best of the batch) 12-25-07

Posted By Stephen Fugardi
Dan, Congradulations on that excellent image, your best so far! Amazing for those conditions. To fit 27 avis you must have a very large hard drive. Thanks for posting

Regards,
Steve

January 1, 2008 10:26 PM Forum: CCD Imaging and Processing/Solar System

Comet Tuttle

Posted By Stephen Fugardi
Paul, great shot! Tuttle is a very fast moving comet compared to Holmes. Happy new year!

Regards,
Steve

January 20, 2008 01:18 PM Forum: CCD Imaging and Processing/Solar System

Mars (Jan 16, 2008)

Posted By Stephen Fugardi
Dan, excellent Mars! It's amazing how you can squeeze good 30fps frames out of that Toucam. This Mars season has been horrible for seeing.

Regards,
Steve

PS: You know I'll be rooting for my NY Giants today smile

January 22, 2008 05:25 PM Forum: CCD Imaging and Processing/Solar System

White Spot on Saturn

Posted By Stephen Fugardi
Steve, excellent capture of Saturn and its storm! Please send some of that incredible seeing eastward...

Regards,
Steve

January 24, 2008 03:09 PM Forum: CCD Imaging and Processing/Solar System

Mars f45, 1/23/08 RGB

Posted By Stephen Fugardi
This is my first attempt at an LRGB image. I took the lum out of the red channel, then over sharpened it and saved it as L. After splitting the R,G,B back out of my original RGB image, I recombined the new L channel with R,G,B using ImagesPlus. I am not sure that this is the correct procedure. While this new image shows more contrast, there is really no more detail. If anyone has a better way to combine the LRGB channels, please let me know. Thanks

Regards,
Steve

January 27, 2008 02:07 PM Forum: CCD Imaging and Processing/Solar System

Mars f45, 1/25/08 RRGB

Posted By Stephen Fugardi
Here is my first Saturn of the year taken under degrading conditions as the clouds rolled in just before midnight. This image is severely under exposed, 1/15s Red & 1/13s Green @15fps, 1/7s Blue @7.5fps, Lum 1/30s @30fps Br 63, Gain 780, Gamma 100%. Best 200 frames each stacked. The image histogram cutoff was only 35-40%. Next time I will use higher gain to push the peak closer to 50% and hopefully get better seeing. I couldnt sharpen the image much without severe distortion and only used Lucy Richardson @1.3 for 3x. Also the image size is really too small to work with so I'll try double stacking my barlows to get f45. I just boosted the lum to 225% to increase the brightness, but the colors are washed out

Regards,
Steve

January 28, 2008 04:51 PM Forum: CCD Imaging and Processing/Solar System

NEO 2007 TU24

Posted By Stephen Fugardi
Stuart, incredible capture of this 800ft wide asteroid! How did you get the coordinates to find it? Thanks for posting that amazing shot

Regards,
Steve

January 29, 2008 03:58 AM Forum: CCD Imaging and Processing/Solar System

NEO 2007 TU24 C11 f10 1/28

Posted By Stephen Fugardi
Here's a rare gem, a 30sec capture of TU24 crossing in front of a star taken around 1:43UT. Hope you like it

Regards,
Steve

February 1, 2008 12:11 PM Forum: CCD Imaging and Processing/Solar System

Sunspot AR 10982 and TOA first solar light

Posted By Stephen Fugardi
Paul, excellent surface details! If that was bad seeing, your setup should produce amazing images in good conditions. With those good southwest skies, you'll never rest between solar and night time planetary imaging round the clock smile Thanks for posting, can't wait to see your future shots

Regards,
Steve

February 2, 2008 03:47 PM Forum: CCD Imaging and Processing/Solar System

Canon Powershot Afocal Saturn, 6" scope (and Orion

Posted By Stephen Fugardi
Jason, great afocal shots! If you slightly increase the zoom 1/4 - 1/3 of the way you would lose the vignetting on the M42 shot. I have used my 4Meg A80 power attached to a 55mm eyepiece and was able to capture the entire sun nicely in the frame. I will try to use this afocal setup to capture the next lunar eclipse. The other positive about Canon is that the remote control software is free (unlike Nikon) Thanks for posting

Regards,
Steve

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