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Posts Made By: Wesley Higgins

August 24, 2003 04:37 PM Forum: CCD Imaging and Processing/Solar System

Shot Mars with an UZI

Posted By Wesley Higgins
Hi Ralph,

One of the best Digital camera Mars to date ,
what resolution were you imaging at ? .
You should place this one in the Digital Astro
Challenge .

Thanks,

Wes Higgins




August 25, 2003 01:51 AM Forum: CCD Imaging and Processing/Solar System

Which one do you like better? or neither?

Posted By Wesley Higgins
Yu Gu,

For the pure beauty of the image I prefer the
one on the right but the trend seems to be this,
get as much detail as one can by going right up to
the over processed line but not crossing over it and
of course what is over processed to one person may not
be to the next , the image on the left has sharper
details and is not over processed IMO .
They are both excellent! images IMO

Thanks,

Wes Higgins

August 26, 2003 10:47 PM Forum: CCD Imaging and Processing/Solar System

MARS, as of 08/26/03 2:00am

Posted By Wesley Higgins
Hi Ivan,

Very good image , I think I'm going to miss Mars
as it moves away later this year .

Thanks,

Wes Higgins

August 27, 2003 07:59 PM Forum: CCD Imaging and Processing/Solar System

Probably my best Mars yet - Olympus Digicam

Posted By Wesley Higgins
Jose,

You are closing the gap between a webcam and
a digital camera , great! image .
I hope you enter it in the digital astro
Mars challenge, as of now you would have my vote .

Thanks,

Wes Higgins

September 1, 2003 01:18 PM Forum: CCD Imaging and Processing/Solar System

Mars from 8/29/03

Posted By Wesley Higgins
Rick,

Great shot, judging from the images I have viewed the CCD Astro cameras can do as well or maybe better than webcams on Mars .
If Arizona is clearing maybe Oklahoma will soon .

Thanks,

Wes Higgins

October 9, 2003 08:32 PM Forum: CCD Imaging and Processing/Solar System

toucam frame rates

Posted By Wesley Higgins
Eddie,

As I understand it the resolution will not change with
a higher frame rate (a 640x480 will stay 640x480) what
will change is the image compression will increase in
order to keep the data stream low enough for a USB1
port to handle .
The increased image compression will add noise and image artifacts , after taking many images with a Toucam Pro
at 5FPS and 10FPS I have found 10FPS to be a better choice ,to my eyes the slightly more compression of 10FPS is not noticeable and you can double the amount of images
in the same time frame .
You will need a fairly fast computer to image at 10FPS or
you may have to many dropped frames , the attached Mars image taken on 08/23/03 was imaged at 10FPS .

Getting of the subject about 10 days after I took this image I tore the cartilage in my left knee and have not been able to image any since although I think I will be able to in a week or two

Thanks,

Wes Higgins





October 10, 2003 02:38 AM Forum: CCD Imaging and Processing/Solar System

Wes Higgins Image Posts

Posted By Wesley Higgins
Hi Tom,

Thank you very much for the kind words , yep
Jupiter is just around the corner and I'm anxious
to see all the great images that everybody will
be posting .

Thanks,

Wes Higgins



I'm sure others, as well as myself have missed your excellent image posts. Here's to a quick and complete recovery from that torn cartilage.

Jupiter is on its way!

Best regards,

Tom Tolla

October 16, 2003 03:09 PM Forum: CCD Imaging and Processing/Solar System

Classical Gas

Posted By Wesley Higgins
Gary,

Beautiful Saturn alright , have you tried Saturn
with out the IR Cut Filter , I know it helps on
Mars , maybe I should try it on Saturn too .

Thanks,

Wes Higgins

October 19, 2003 01:59 PM Forum: CCD Imaging and Processing/Solar System

Saturn Image

Posted By Wesley Higgins
Hi Dennis,

Great Saturn image , welcome to the webcam users
what took you so long :>)

Thanks,

Wes Higgins

October 22, 2003 03:51 PM Forum: CCD Imaging and Processing/Solar System

chromosphere

Posted By Wesley Higgins
Alan,

Amazing!!! what a sharp and detailed image!

Thanks for posting this ,

Wes Higgins

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