From David M MOORE
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Masatsugu: I anticipate clear and fairly steady skies this evening. Plan on a
set of images as
Thanks
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I will still be imaging
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Subject: Mars - January
13, 2002
My 20 minute "window" of good
seeing per night at Dusk, held true tonight. This image set was taken through
varying layers of Cirrus shortly after sundown. The Red image is best owing to
shorter exposures. It's nice to have Mars at a decent Declination, -2.1 degrees
and only slightly past the CM. Of course, as I write this, it is now cloudy
again, so imaging Jupiter is out.
As the Green images were taken, heavier
Cirrus whisked by, lowering my saturation levels by 30 percent. As a result I
had to use the R(G)B technique to get a good color image. The G image was too
far out of synch. from the R and B images. Images were enlarged 60 percent.
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Masatsugu: I still like video very much, but Mars was too small for the
sensitivity of my video camera with filters. I am very impressed with the
results with the Sony video camera Kumamori uses. I have much the same Sony
camera, but have never used it for astronomy. I also use the Starlite Xpress
HX-5 camera. The seeing usually does not allow me to use it to its fullest
effect however.
Again
I apologize for sending that old message. I had my old emails sorted by sender
looking for a particular message.. I forgot about this and saw the message,
thinking it was current and replied without looking at the date. I am getting
old!
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Masatsugu: Thank you for your thoughtfulness. Of course, I accept your offer to
send me the CMO minus white powder! I will send you my address.
Yes, I
see Don is imaging again. No one does it better more consistently. Don has far
better seeing than I.
Heh,
Heh, as for my age, I am 45, though sometimes I feel and act 85!
Obviously
Don is going senile (ha, ha) as I was
at his home only last June for the Mars flashes and saw Don at Tom Dobbins's
home a year ago!
Take care and Thanks again
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