At GSSP Friday night we were treated to a display of noctilucent clouds on the northern horizon at around 10:00 pm. Could be more this summer and might get as...
Hi all, I posted two images of Jupiter. The recent mornings have had good seeing and the two images are July 2nd showing a lot of white spots and July 4th...
Nice images! ... From: Jim <jscala2@...> Subject: [mdasimaging] More Jupiter To: mdasimaging@yahoogroups.com Date: Monday, July 4, 2011, 2:51 PM Â Hi...
I noticed that my Canon DLSR has a setting for Monochrome. So I started thinking what happens internally when this setting is applied. Does anyone have a...
Hi Ron, The sensors in these cameras have a color filter pattern that assigns a single color to each pixel, usually red, green and blue. The internal...
Thanks Allen. I am still trying to get my head around the details, however I have done some additional reading and found most people say there is no benefit,...
Hi All, What's on for Tuesday evening? I would still like to have someone explain very simply; in lay terms, "What is gain?" I'm thinking of my web cam. Any...
Hi All, I decided that we needed a picture when folks go to our site. So, I uploaded the M31 by my friend, Geoff Collins. It's an excellent image. Jim...
I will be there, we might have to change rooms if my room is being cleaned but I have access to other rooms so we can still meet at the school no problem. Doug...
Hi Ron, Doug et al. I will be there Tuesday. I belong to two writing groups where we read our stuff around and then critique each other. The Tuesday meetings...
I may be there. 50/50 at the moment due to work pressure. Chris F ... From: "Jim" <jscala2@...> To: mdasimaging@yahoogroups.com Sent: Monday, July 11,...
I may not be there tomorrow night. Â Currently I'm house sitting for relatives. Â I'll have to see how my schedule works out with work too. Jon ... From: Jim...
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Reminder from: mdasimaging Yahoo! Group http://groups.yahoo.com/group/mdasimaging/cal Imaging SIG Meeting Tuesday July 12, 2011 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm (This event...
I'll try to make it tonight - getting ready for family visit. I'll be happy to discuss gain and related questions that come up every so often. -Allen...
Hi All Tuesday night was a good meeting. Alan gave me some thoughts about Registax sharpening. So, I returned to an image I took on July 4th and reprocessed....
Hi All, The seeing was good this morning at 0500. So, I took an image of Jupiter. I notice that in low moisture skies, the RGB doesn't have to be realigned....
Hi All, I'm the MDAS "What's Up" speaker for September. I'm thinking of a talk on the Imaging group. It's five years since we held the first meeting at my...
I will probably be there August 9th. I am having surgery on August 4th, but I should be okay be then. I think there is potentially a lot of new interest in...
How is this? To MDAS general membership, Have you ever wanted to take a picture of what you were looking at through your telescope but didn't know where to...
Hi Jim, Good idea to keep the club updated on our activities. First, I plan to attend the Aug 9 meeting, although we have surgery scheduled for Aug 3, should...
If meetings have been a little sparse of late, I am a guilty party myself mainly due to my intense work/travel schedule. That also applies to August 9th when I...
Hi Jim, Sorry, I will be in England on the 9th. Feel free to use any of my images posted in the images section for your presentation. You might also include...
Hi Stuart et al. I use Registax 5.1. I've tried the new registax and it seems a little more complex. I find that for my images of Jupiter 320X240 pixels...
Hi All, This morning Jupiter's red spot (salmon colored) transited at 0528, but I was there at 0400 and had my first image at 0420 after focusing on Hamal etc....
Hi all, I posted the image I captured at 0538 this morning (07/28/2011) against a blue sky. It's the first image in my oversized group. I didn't do any...
I missed Allen's discussion, but when you do sharpening in Registax and you're manipulating the wavelets, how do you pick which wavelet slider to use, and by...
