Re: [APML] Film vs. webcam on Mars

[Jeff Allen <jeffstak@yahoo.com>]

John,
Fantastic results with the webcam. The film image
would'nt look too bad but side by side it kind of
loses something.
great job.

Jeff Allen


--- John Boudreau <jeboud@comcast.net> wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> Well, while set up for webcam imaging of Mars on
> Thursday morning, for old time's sake I decided to
> shoot a roll of film to see what results I could
> get. Even though I knew the webcam would win, I was
> curious to see just by how much.
> 
> I shot 37 frames of the new Fuji Astia 100F, which
> actually has a bit better RMS grain index of 7, as
> compared to Provia 100F's RMS of 8. The best 18
> frames were recorded as BMP files so that they could
> be aligned and stacked in RegiStax.
> You wouldn't want to see the individual frames
> <VBG>.
> 
> Anyway, here's the film result vs. my webcam result
> of 226 frames --- same scope, taken 30 minutes
> apart:
> http://home.comcast.net/~jeboud/film_mars.htm
> 
> BTW--- The seeing here in Massachusetts certainly
> isn't the best there is--- although this was a good
> night for these parts, and Mars is only something
> like 30 degrees or so at best above the horizon
> here. I would expect results taken Florida or
> similar site to easily beat these images.
> 
> 
> 
> John Boudreau
> http://home.comcast.net/~jeboud/astro.htm
> 
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