Right: Time: 8/18/2003 11:02 pm am PST Stacked 46 frames.
Right: Time: 8/18/2003 11:29 pm PST Stacked 73 frames.
Right: Time: 8/18/2003 11:40 pm PST Stacked 63 frames.
Right: Time: 8/18/2003 11:56 pm PST Stacked 61 frames.
| The Mars opposition of 2003. Photographs were taken with a 3com WebConnect webcam (at medium resolution) at the prime focus of my f/15 7" LX-50 Meade Maksutov-Cassegrain Telescope. All photos are at f/15. All of these images were stacked using Registax 2.0. Since the atmosphere refracts the Red, Green, and Blue channels by differing amounts, the color shift option was used to compensate for this effect. Wavelets were used to increase the sharpness. The files so created were then further processed with Corel Photopaint 9 using the unsharp mask, tone curve, hue, Gaussian blur and contrast. All of these are eyeballed for best iamge. |
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Left: Time: 8/18/2003 10:54 pm PST Stacked 25 frames. Right: Time: 8/18/2003 11:02 pm am PST Stacked 46 frames. |
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Left: Time: 8/18/2003 11:08 pm PST Stacked 27 frames. Right: Time: 8/18/2003 11:29 pm PST Stacked 73 frames. |
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Left: Time: 8/18/2003 11:36 pm PST Stacked 72 frames. Right: Time: 8/18/2003 11:40 pm PST Stacked 63 frames. |
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Left: Time: 8/18/2003 11:48 pm PST Stacked 53 frames. Right: Time: 8/18/2003 11:56 pm PST Stacked 61 frames. |
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| Time: 8/19/2003 12:02 am PST Stacked 190 frames. |
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| Note that the 11:36pm shot and the 11:40pm shot were processed twice (once for the polar cap region and once for surface detail). The two were then stacked to get the best of both. | |