12 Day Old Moon

Mar 25, 2002 05:44-0702 UTC- Another tough picture that I will rack up as a learning experience. The fog rolled in half way through the taking of the images. I had a tough time getting the luminosity of the various images to match up and Copernicus is not very clear at all. The new equatorial wedge worked very well and the stitching together of the individual images went much smoother. All I could really ask for is an automated process in stacking the images. Having to go through the stacking process 44 times is a bit much.

The image was created by stitching together 44 images using Paintshop Pro 7.02. Each image was created by capturing AVIs with a modified old Connectix Color QuickCam and using Vega. The AVIs were then processed using AstroStack. Each image was stacked from 40 frames from each AVI. The telescope used was a Meade LX-90 (8" SCT, f/10).

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