[AZ-Observing] My First Mars (and Webcam) Photo!..
- From: Greg Askins <gregaskins@xxxxxxx>
- To: EVAC@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Mon, 18 Aug 2003 13:11:52 -0700
http://homepage.mac.com/gregaskins/PhotoAlbum8.html
We actually had some clear skies in Chandler Sunday night, so I tried
connecting my new ToUcam up to my ETX-125 and iBook. I have never tried
any astrophotography before, but it was pretty cool seeing Mars live on
the computer screen. The seeing did not seem very stable, but I was
able to capture a few moments of relatively stable images for some
stacking and processing.
I think I was observing/recording approximately the same section of
Mars seen in the computer-generated photo at this site (north is up in
both my photo and the computer-generated one):
http://skyandtelescope.com/observing/objects/planets/article_985_1.asp
BTW, look how small the polar cap is predicted to be by the end of
August.
I think my reds are probably too pronounced (I'm planning on playing
with restacking and Photoshop some more), but it was a LOT of fun to
produce a reasonable image of Mars with an inexpensive USB webcam!
Greg Askins
Chandler, AZ
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