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Alpine Valley, 18 April 2013, David Dearden

Alpine Valley, 18 April 2013

Alpine Valley, 18 April 2013, David Dearden

Alpine Valley, 18 April 2013

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Description

The phase seemed about right to capture a nice view of the Alpine Valley, but the floor of Plato is still in shadow so I didn’t get to test the Logitech c170 HD against that.

Date: 18 Apr 2013

Subject: Alpine Valley region

Scope: AT8IN + Meade 3x Barlow

Filter: Baader Planetarium Fringe Killer (UV-IR cut)

Mount: CG-5 (Synta motors)

Guiding: manual

Camera: Modified Logitech c270 HD

Acquisition: BTV+Webcam Settings

Exposure: 120 s, ~10 fps

Stacking: PIPP (Wine); Registax 6 (VMWare), best 80 frames of about 1200

Processing: Wavelets in Registax 6 (“Recommended” settings with linked wavelets); StarTools Contrast:Agressiveness 25; Track; CS6 Astronomy Tools AstroFrame.

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Alpine Valley, 18 April 2013, David Dearden