Brian and Dean - I'm enjoying your comments - I sure appreciate the analysis that you are putting into this image. It can only help me improve future pictures. I did have the automatic noise subtraction turned on so I assume that the majority of hot pixels were subtracted. I'm interested to hear about the comatic stars in the corners, I hadn't noticed that. If either of you would like, I would be glad to send you the original .raw file, which is approximately 7Mb in size. I don't have the skill to determine how much damage was done to the image by the jpeg compression, but I'm sure there was some loss of quality. Keith -----Original Message----- From: az-observing-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:az-observing-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of ketelsen@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx Sent: 05/01/2006 4:11 PM To: az-observing@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: [AZ-Observing] Re: Was Saturday Great or What??? Brian- The 20Da has 6.4 micron pixels, so my math (better check it!) says that with a 24mm lens, resolution should be 56 arcseconds, about what you said the image demonstrated... I do not know how jpeg compression works, though you can see artifacts in Keith's full-scale image. Normally ar full resolution, with lots of structure, my jpegs can be 2-3 mbytes, though admittedly I rarely shoot wide field images, so don't know if we are losing anything. Certainly with smaller files, don't you lose resolution and magnitude information? -Dean >>> the jpeg compression would really kill your resolution and limiting >>> magnitude. > > Does the jpeg compression process bin pixels as well as lopping > off bits? I noticed that stars in the corners of the image were > elongated radially (looking fairly comatic), so I assumed the posted > image was showing the full angular resolution, even if the dynamic > range was compressed. I guess the more direct question would be: > how big are the pixels on the chip, so one could derive arcsec/pixel? > One could then compare that against the delivered image quality. > > \Brian > -- > See message header for info on list archives or unsubscribing, and please > send personal replies to the author, not the list. > > -- See message header for info on list archives or unsubscribing, and please send personal replies to the author, not the list. -- See message header for info on list archives or unsubscribing, and please send personal replies to the author, not the list.