New Member Greetings
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Tony
Greetings to everyone! My name is Tony. I’m looking forward to meeting in person sometime in the near future post Covid. I thought I’d share a “poster” I made from shots I took this past month of Mars. I think I’ve been having too much fun as I made a labelled albedo map of the photos too. I used a 203mm Newtonian, a Powermate 5x, and ZWO ASI 178mc, Pipp, AutoStakkert3, Registax, and a little PS. I know using the PM5x with my 8 inch is oversampling, but I did binning on some. First time trying, eh. - Anyway, I was happy with the photos I got. Now its time to try some deep sky targets with my dslr.
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Sterling DeRamus
Welcome, Tony. Great shots.
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On Nov 8, 2020, at 8:41 AM, Tony <mineralmanager@...> wrote:
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Martin
Very nice!
Martin Rodriguez
From: main@bas-astro.groups.io <main@bas-astro.groups.io> on behalf of Tony <mineralmanager@...>
Sent: Sunday, November 8, 2020 3:47 AM To: main@bas-astro.groups.io <main@bas-astro.groups.io> Subject: [bas-astro] New Member Greetings Greetings to everyone! My name is Tony. I’m looking forward to meeting in person sometime in the near future post Covid. I thought I’d share a “poster” I made from shots I took this past month of Mars. I think I’ve been having too much fun as I made a labelled albedo map of the photos too. I used a 203mm Newtonian, a Powermate 5x, and ZWO ASI 178mc, Pipp, AutoStakkert3, Registax, and a little PS. I know using the PM5x with my 8 inch is oversampling, but I did binning on some. First time trying, eh. - Anyway, I was happy with the photos I got. Now its time to try some deep sky targets with my dslr. Attachments:
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Robert Pitt
Impressive Tony!
From: main@bas-astro.groups.io <main@bas-astro.groups.io> On Behalf Of Tony
Sent: Saturday, November 7, 2020 9:48 PM To: main@bas-astro.groups.io Subject: [bas-astro] New Member Greetings
Greetings to everyone! My name is Tony. I’m looking forward to meeting in person sometime in the near future post Covid. I thought I’d share a “poster” I made from shots I took this past month of Mars. I think I’ve been having too much fun as I made a labelled albedo map of the photos too. I used a 203mm Newtonian, a Powermate 5x, and ZWO ASI 178mc, Pipp, AutoStakkert3, Registax, and a little PS. I know using the PM5x with my 8 inch is oversampling, but I did binning on some. First time trying, eh. - Anyway, I was happy with the photos I got. Now its time to try some deep sky targets with my dslr. Attachments:
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Mark Copper
Nice work!
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Myron Wasiuta
Excellent work Tony! Beautiful images.
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Dr. Myron Wasiuta President- MSRO Science, Inc Director- Mark Slade Remote Observatory Wilderness, VA USA
On Nov 8, 2020, at 1:49 PM, Martin <Mrodri2@...> wrote:
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Greetings Tony! Great shots, looking forward to meeting in person.
-Aaron
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James Moore
Tony,
Nicely done! Thank you for sharing the images. Welcome to the group! James
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Kurt Edwards
Nicely done, Tony. I have been enjoying your pictures of Mars on Facebook. I do have an amateur astronomy question. How do you figure out the magnitude of each of these pictures?
Kurt Edwards
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Tony
Kurt,
The camera calculates and places in the metadata file. I also double check on the Mars profiler page located here: https://skyandtelescope.org/wp-content/plugins/observing-tools/mars_profiler/mars.html Just change the date and put at the correct time. Here is a snip from the camera metadata file: FireCapture v2.6 Settings ------------------------------------
Camera=ZWO ASI178MC
Filter=L
Profile=Mars
Diameter=19.65"
Magnitude=-2.07
CM=85.6° (during mid of capture)
FocalLength=6100mm
Resolution=0.08"
Filename=Mars_001241.ser
Date=031120
Start=001041.640 Tony
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Tony
Kurt,
It would have been more accurate to have said that the camera software calculates. Since It's not connected to the internet, I assume (dangerous) it calculates. Unless it has an ephemeris database it pulls from.?. Anyone else know? Bueller? Tony
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