Time is running out on this historic Mars opposition. I need to get in one more imaging session this week to see if I can improve things at all, but as of now, here is the best I’ve gotten. Again, I have included a single frame, the Registax-stacked frames, and the finalized image. In the case of Mars, I add a bit of histogram stretching to the wavelet filtering process described earlier in order to draw the color out more clearly. So, without further ado (images are clickable for easier comparison, but they will not be any bigger in the new browser window):

Raw Frame

Stacked Frames

Stacked, Filtered, and Stretched

I have really got to hit the sack. I’ve just spent nearly two hours processing astronomical images–time I could have spent sleeping or doing the still-substantial amount of work necessary to get comments (and lots of other important things) running here. Ah, well. Let me know by email if you like this kind of thing. And spot the Homestar Runner allusion while you’re at it.

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• Posted by Tim on Monday, September 8, 2003 at 12:09:19 am PDT
• Category: Miscellany
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