by sarahsvaleri

This is my first telescope reflection and to tell you the truth, I advise nothing about astronomy and bought it a whim of * looks more things in heaven *. Well deserved joke. But the telescope is more energetic and light supervision is unquestionably beautiful. The instruction manual has been moderate to accompany and implementation in place did not span all, even for a noob. I defintely push this.

jpg "> I always wanted a PR and when Mars was near the opening ahead of its closest mileage to dirt in 2200 years, I have no yen for recreation over 2 millennia to get one . Amazon has not delivered the extent, but in time to keep me the red planet closest distance in the report.

I must say that the remark was anti-climatic ... but not due to inadequacies of the glass. At its closest, Mars resembled an orange dot with a point near the cap virtuous hostile - adequately collapsed landing....

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by WABarry

I am using an unmodified Canon 350D.  I nick the frames in Kick off arise Labs Nebulosity , align and add up in Inscrutable Sky Stacker .   I do not have the full 16 bit adaptation of Photo Look for.   I am using Photo Machine shop Elements .....an 8 bit program......which means I am converting a 16 bit tif send in into an 8 bit send in for processing.   My questions is:

How much information am I losing in the conversion make?

How much purposefulness am I losing in the images?

Thanks,

Barry

If your images are color with 16 bits per conduct, each medium has 65,536 levels of facts. When you go down to 8 bit, each ditch is reduced to a unmitigated 256 levels of word.

The so-called "24-bit color" that is commonly old in jpeg files is in actuality condign the 3 color channels R-G-B, each being 8 bits inappropriate, significance that the red, verdant and filthy layers will each have 256 levels. But this gives a compute coalition of 16 million colors, considered to be the limit that the normal altruist eye can detect. Also, almost every computer protection in the everyone today is only masterful disposed to of showing 24 - bit RGB (8 bits per conduit). So even if you could procedure all your 16 bit details, you would still have to lessen it to 24 bit RGB (by Window/Leveling) to along conformist jpeg files that you can show to others.

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