Chuck, How do you make an apodizing mask? Debbie --- In digital_astro@yahoogroups.com, Ginger Mayfield <chikadee@e...> wrote: After having pretty pitiful results with my Mars imaging tonight I did a little viewing of the Moon, still poor seeing, so waited a little longer. Decided to try Rigel and companion just for the fun of it. I got a lucky shot of it with my C-2100 right after I first got it so this time I wanted to try the D60. Didn't know what settings to use and so tried a lot of different ones. At first I wasn't getting the companion at all but finally started to see it at around 1 sec but it wasn't truly split. Decided to use the apodizing mask to see if I could get a split and sure enough, that worked. So here is the result. Rainbow colors are from the mask. Hey, they're psychedelic. Well, what did you expect, I'm an old hippie! ;-) D60 with Denkmeier OCS through a 14.5" Starmaster tracking Dob Homemade apodizing mask in place Single 1 sec exposure, 200 ISO No processing except cropping Doubles are really fun! Now I know I need a Powermate! http://velatron.com/dca/ginger/rigel101203.jpg Ginger --- End forwarded message ---