First, I would like to apologize for any spelling errors or confusing sentences. The best time to write my blog is at 3am. I woke up around noon after having a late night observing for the first time at the Steward Observatory. I had some great cereal for breakfast. Half of the crew went to go hiking while the rest of us stayed in the dorms and recuperated from the night before. Group Jupiter (Eric, Ryan, and myself) got right to work around 6pm and continued imaging until 8pm-ish. We had to do this because Jupiter rises mostly during the day, so we had to wait until the sunset but before Jupiter set. The night before we had used a smaller lens to capture images, but tonight we went for larger images and changed over to a new lens. In hopes of better resolution in order to see the features more clearly. After we had finished collecting our data, we got right to work on stacking the images in a program called Registax. Unfortunately, my computer isn't the best and couldn't handle the program and all the data. Luckily everyone else's (except Melissa's of course) could. So I then reviewed some Registax tutorials so if I got the chance to use it i'd be prepared. I then took images of the IC466 Nebula, I couldn't get the horsehead nebula like I wanted to the night before because it was too low in the sky.
(Picture of IC466 after some color adjustments in SAOImage)
Then I helped saturn's group some set up and get started. After we had finished with them I immediately crashed. Apparently there was some chaos in my room about a giant spider. However, I was too zoinked out to even notice. I slept real well, hard and long day's work.
It's a shame you couldn't get the Horse head nebula. That would have been really awesome.
ReplyDeleteThat's a really good image! Can't wait to see the final product after calibration!
ReplyDeleteEven with the few spelling/grammar errors, you were still in better shape than I was. I gave up on posting the last two before we got down the mountain because I knew they wouldn't be coherent and I wouldn't be able to stay awake if I tried to write them either in the middle of the night or when I'm groggy and sleep deprived in the "morning". I was kind of worried Melissa would wake you with the hysteria about the spider, but I'm glad you didn't notice. (It was HUGE, by the way!)
ReplyDeleteIm still angry that your nebula looks cooler than mine at this point! just kidding but great work with maxim, I will be needing some help with it.
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