Lookin north around ___ 3 images at about 30 s interval diffuse greenish glow Pleiades visible at right colors posterized and degraded (muddied) from original convert to gifs first? try manual color tweaking stars easily seen in originals don't show in low res resized and adjusted w/ CompuPic Pro 6.22, animated GIF with Photosuite Platinum 4	200 x 150 pixels	(same 200 x 150 pixels)
Looking west later that evening...red ribbon and green "flare" Altair visible colors posterized and degraded (muddied) from original convert to gifs first? try manual color tweaking stars easily seen in originals don't show in low res resized and adjusted w/ CompuPic Pro 6.22, animated GIF with Photosuite Platinum 4	200 x 150 pixels	(same 200 x 150 pixels)

Notes:

• This was a bit of a flier, just to see if it would work. Conclusion is the taking the images was easy, could be done at regular intervals. Dynamic nature is recorded well, colors and gradations are not. Processing needs work.
•  Camera clock / image timestamp is off by _____

Moondark is written by Doug Miller, published at  the Moondark web site, and printed in the Delmarva Star Gazers' Star Gazer News. This document was last revised on 23 November 2003. Text and images copyright © 2003 by Douglas C. Miller, All Rights Reserved. This material may not be reproduced in any form without prior permission.