From
Damian A PEACH
® . . . . . . .Date: Tue, 9 Dec 2003 23:47:19 -0000
Subject: Latest
trip
Dear Friends,
All photo's
have been reduced to 30% of actual size.
Best Wishes,
® . .
. . . . .Date: Tue, 23 Dec 2003
20:43:56 -0000
Subject: Saturn
on December 16th.
Hi all,
Here is a Saturn image from
December 16th. Seeing conditions were good to excellent. A small dark spot was
captured. The full data set follows to the relevant people.
For this image:
00:21 UTC (CM1=318.4,
CM3=331.6.)
11"
(28cm) SCT @ f/31. ATK-1HS CCD (Luminance) and Philips
ToUcam pro (RGB.)
L: ~3000 x 1/10th secs. (ATK)
RGB: ~1000 x 1/25th secs. (ToUcam.)
Altitude: 60degs.
Merry Christmas to all.
® . .
. . . . .Date: Wed, 24 Dec 2003
15:05:40 -0000
Subject: Re:
Saturn on December 16th.
Hi Paolo,
>>But there's something
strange: 3000 frames multiplied 0,1 secs gives 300 secs (5
minutes!!!), a too longer time for a "spinless"
Saturn imaging!
Thanks for your mail. In fact,
you are not correct in that 300secs is to long.
CCD images produced by Ed Grafton and Myself
using windows of 360secs using cooled CCD indicates this is fine for Saturn. In
fact, Ed's images were the very first to discover the white spots at -40s on
Saturn, and this was done with such an imaging window. Also, all the images i produced last apparition were done using 300secs window,
and no notable blurring occurs, when spots were present on the globe.
>>Further, I don't believe
you used all the frames captured, so the elapsed time should be still longer!
I used 3000 of 3600 images.
Seeing was very good, so little change between each raw frame occurs.
>>But you also managed a
CCD setup with the webcam (1-2 minutes?) and a 250 secs
RGB color avi through it.
Changing between cameras takes
about 10 secs, and about 10-15secs refocus for the
RGB data. This doesnt affect the final LRGB image
since the atmospheric details present in the image are resident in the L image,
while the RGB is simply the colour information. Both
cameras can be controlled from the same software, so this is very convenient.
Best Wishes,
Damian PEACH (
ALPO/BAA Jupiter
Sections; BAA Saturn Section
email
Homepage: http://www.damianpeach.com/