[ATMoB-discuss] 2 Questions

[mmotta at massmed.org]

Your questions can not be answered in under a few
chapters. I suggest you get AIP4 for windows, and it
comes with free image software to use. Read the entire
book, will be the rosetta stone for you, (Search out at
willman-bell, by Richard Berry).

Mario Motta

On Tue, 29 Aug 2006 12:15:15 -0400, "Herzberg, Steven
\(OCD\)" wrote:

> 
> I have 2 totally unrelated questions:
>  
> 1.  Does anyone know of a simple beginners guide to
> digital astro image
> processing?  I try to follow some of the discussions
> here and am totally
> lost after the first couple of words.  I am using -
> yes, here comes the
> dinosaur - film which I have digitized when it is
> processed at the photo
> lab, so I'm not sure what, in this context, a dark
> frame or any other
> benchmark frame, is or how it could be made or even if
> it is necessary.
> Nor have I any idea why and when one would use certain
> techniques, such
> as deconvolution or unsharp masking - it's all Greek
to
> me (with
> apologies to Homer).  I've tried to run a couple of
> Jupiter photos thru
> an unsharp mask and end up with a slightly better
> Jupiter and a much
> more speckled background sky.  As an added treat I do
> not have
> Photoshop, but have GIMP instead.  I also have
Registax
> and downloaded
> an astro imaging program from Iris, but have not
really
> figured out how
> to use any of them.  So if anyone knows of an "Image
> processing for
> Dummies" book, or some good tutorials, I would
> appreciate it.
>  
> 2.  I'm looking for a small finder scope to fit the
> small finder-scope
> rings that came with an optical tube I am finally
> getting mounted and
> running.  The rings will hold something in the 30-35mm
> diameter range.
> If anyone has one they can sell cheap - or donate -
> please let me know.
> Thanks.
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