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Tycho and Lunar Southern Highlands, Mac-native acquisition, 22 Jan 2013, David Dearden

Tycho and Lunar Southern Highlands, Mac-native acquisition, 22 Jan 2013

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Description

First night going Mac-native for capture with the LPI camera. I’m not sure I’m not losing something in the conversion from Quicktime to AVI; this looks a little pixelated. But I loved being able to run the camera Mac-native. Quite a different phase angle from the 27 Jun 2012 image.

Date: 22 Jan 2013

Subject: Tycho, Clavius, and lunar southern highlands

Scope: AT8IN, 3x Barlow (f/12, 2400 mm)

Mount: CG-5

Guiding: PHD

Camera: Meade LPI

Acquisition: BTV with Sonix drivers (Mac-native)

Exposure: ~120 s 20 fps Quicktime

Stacking: Convert to AVI with MPEG Streamclip (jpgb codec), Registax 6, automatic alignpoint selection, best 100 frames/alignpoint

Processing: Registax 6 wavelets; StarTools crop, rotate 180°, Contrast, Sharpen; CS6 Astronomy Tools Astro Frame.

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Tycho and Lunar Southern Highlands, Mac-native acquisition, 22 Jan 2013, David Dearden