Rod Mollise
RMOLLISE@aol.com
 
 
 
Mars, 3 May 1999, with a tripod mounted Sony CCD F-34 camcorder setup afocally with an 8" SCT.  Using auto-exposure, the camera ran at 1/100 second and Rod comments that the video images were a little dark and need a little work.  He used minimal image processing with these images using Photoshop and CCDSoft.  Both images are from the same frame, the image at right was processed monochrome.
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Battling cranky batteries, voracious bugs and less than ideal seeing, Rod was able to capture a few images of the Red Planet using a Sony CCD F-34 camcorder in an afocal setup with his 12.5" Dobsonian with a 26mm Celestron Plossl and 2x Barlow.  The camera was handheld and the video image was processed with CCDSoft and Adobe Photoshop.
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Hand held Sony camcorder / 8" f/7 Dobsonian
Working with what Rod describes as a very undistinguished image of Gassendi, he was able to bring out a considerable amount of detail using the Richardson-Lucy processing routine in his CCDSoft image processing program.
 

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