Re: [APML] Film vs. webcam on Mars

[Stuart Heggie <stuart.j.heggie@sympatico.ca>]

John - wonderfully done! It was great to get your note as I was just 
yesterday trying to explain to a colleague how a web cam is the way to 
go on planets vs film camera. He seemed skeptical so I e-mailed him the 
link to your page. Neat!

Stuart

John Boudreau 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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