Set up and Settings Details

Location:

Burr Ridge, Illinois
Longitude: 87 degrees, 55 minutes, 16 seconds (West)
Latitude: 41 degrees, 44 minutes, 20 seconds (North)
Time zone: 5.00
Elevation: Sea level

Date and Time:

Date:  Jult 12, 2003
Time: 4:00 to 5:30 am CST

Conditions:

NAA Clear Sky Clock for Naperville Il
* Clouds:				Clear
* Transparency:			124/255 (Average)
* Seeing:				0/255 (Excellent)
* Darkness, limiting mag.:	3.8 to 4.7

Target:

Mars - Altitude: 30-35 degrees

Telescope 
Meade LX200 8"
* Aperture (clear) 203mm (8")
* Focal Length 2000 mm (80")
* Focal ratio (f) 10

Barlow/Reducer
* Orion 2x shorty

Webcam
Philips ToUcam PCVC740K Pro 
* 640x480 
* 5.6 x 5.6 micron pixels 
* Meade LX200 8"
* FOV 6.16 x 4.62'
* Image Scale 0.58 arcsec/pixel

K3CCDTools

Video Format

Stream Settings Tab
* Resolution 640x480
* Pixel Depth (bits) and Compression 1420
* Size (bytes) 460800

Camera Button
Image controls tab
* Control: Full Auto Start with it on when image is focused and settled down Full Auto was turned off
* Frame Rate 5 frames per second
* Image controls
* Brightness Adjusted until brightness meter is between 95-100
* Gamma - 0
* Contrast - Centered and not adjusted
* Saturation - Centered and not adjusted
Camera Control tab
White Balance Auto
Exposure
* Shutter speed 1/25 not adjusted
* Gain 0


Settings Button
Settings Dialog box
Video Capture tab
* Frame Rate: 5 per second
* Enabled capture time limit - Seconds 60
Sequence Processing tab
* Gain 1
* Threshold 0

Registax

Select Input Tab
* Deinterlace
* Hoizontal not checked
* Alignment Box 256

Align Frames Tab
* FFT Filter 22
* Quality Estimate 0.1567
* Resampling 2
* Auto Optimization on

Stack Frames Tab
* De-Interlacing Odd and Even Lines
* Resampling Mitchell
* Difference Cutoff 90%
* Quality Cutoff  90%
* 295# of Frames Used/Total 300 of Frames
* Color Processing on
* Use Image Quality on
* Partial Coverage on
* Xshift 0
* Yshift 0


Image Processing Tab

Wavelet Layers
* Linear 2
Initial 1
Step 1
* Wavelet 1 off
* Wavelet 2 off
* Wavelet 3 off
* Wavelet 4 20
* Wavelet 5 23
*  Wavelet 6 21

Auto Processing on
Histogram Stretch Not used
Gamma Curve Used to reduce bright point at the beginning of processing
Gamma 1
Contrast Not used
Brightness Not used

Photoshop

Levels not used
Curves Light to increase contrast primarily to reduce bright point
Unsharp mask in RGB channels individually at first the together at the end
* Amount 100%
* Radius ~7-9 Pixel
* Threshold 0 Levels

Color range - Expand 3- feather 2 along left limb bright orange cresent. Then levels and Hue Satuation to blend in 



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