After seeing only two of the pictures I took the first night I started chasing my recent find, Joe emailed to say he thought he saw something else moving in the pictures besides my find and the bright asteroid in the middle. Joe, I'm surprised you picked up on that. You must have sharp eyes. :) While there was something else moving it was not a real object (Darn, there went Comet Bauman...). Ghost images, cosmic ray hits and "Kodak stars" (name comes from the days of searches using film) do complicate things a bunch. I'm just glad the software somehow takes that into account so I don't chase too many wild geese. At any rate, since Joe saw it and was curious I thought others might be too. So I've taken all nine pictures I shot that night and aligned them so if one moves through them quickly everything (real or not) that moves between frames becomes immediately evident. You will note that "movers" are not necessarily in every frame of the "movie". I intentionally do things to the camera during these sessions that will tend to make most Kodak stars disappear in some of the frames, thereby illuminating them as real targets. The 3.5 MB file can be downloaded from: http://users.wirelessbeehive.com/~paw/temp/JOE.ZIP I left the pictures in the same FIT format they came out of the camera since that's a universal format for CCD imaging. If you can't open them let me know and I'll see about converting them to TIF or JPG. patrick
Patrick: I'd like to take a look, but couldn't open the file. Thanks. Wayne
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Hi Wayne, There are a number of free FITS viewers available that should allow you to open Patrick's images. Here is a URL with links to several FITS viewers: http://fits.gsfc.nasa.gov/fits_viewer.html Clear skies, Dale.
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Patrick: I'd like to take a look, but couldn't open the file. Thanks. Wayne
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I compressed the FIT into JPG. Try: http://users.wirelessbeehive.com/~paw/temp/WAYNE.ZIP patrick On 28 Nov 2007, at 08:21, WAYNE S CLARKE wrote:
Patrick: I'd like to take a look, but couldn't open the file. Thanks. Wayne
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