Re: [APML]: CCD's vs Film (was Moon terminator)

["Bobby Middleton" <bobbym@unicomp.net>]

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> From: Robin Casady
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> FYI: Starlight Xpress recently introduced a one-shot color CCD camera.

Todd Gross has gotten some very good images of Jupiter with his 
MX-5? color CCD camera. In fact they come close to some of D. Parker's
tri-color CCD images. They can be found from links at his home page 
at http://www.weatherman.com 

Planetary images are as of now where CCD's really outdo film. Still being
somewhat of 
a novice I will pose a question: Is this because CCD's have better
resolution, or is it 
because many images can be acquired and checked in real-time to get that
one great 
image when seeing was at the moment perfect?

Bobby Middleton
astropics at: http://home.unicomp.net/~bobbym/astro1.htm