better late than never... Theophilus December 2005
I thought I'd lost this, I spent a lot of time working on an image of Theophilus in late December last year and then never got around to posting it... when I remembered it a few months later I couldn't find it anymore :-(
Anyhoo, I just stumbled across one of the final images in my Jupiter data, how's that for mis-labeled?
Details (as best I can remember):
10" f/6 newtonian
Dragonfly Express firewire camera
lots of frames (maybe 6000 or so?)
Captured under Linux with Coriander, processed under Windows with Registax
and Astra Image.
Yes, that's right, this was my test image for the automatic multipoint alignment stuff I was working on. A couple of things have slowed me down on that - it's incredibly easy to introduce artifacts that show up in the end image, I don't have that completely solved yet but I keep finding improvements on it.
Also I had some problems when I switched to the new scope in January, couldn't seem to get the sort of image detail I needed to test this properly. Looks like that's sorted now and I'll be back in business shortly.
It is the only image I have seen where the Mountain in the centre of Theophilus looks BIG! Other pics don't give it justice. It usually just looks like a little peak.
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Practically a macro compared to Jupiter!
