November 5, 2017 ALP Monthly
Meeting Report
by James
Kevin Ty
Last November 5, 2017 , Astronomical League of the
Philippines (ALP) held its
monthly meeting at
Alice Villa-Real's residence in Quezon City. Members
who were present are ALP President James Kevin Ty ,
director Ronald Sison, Alice Villa-Real , Per Edman and Adi Bontuyan.
Meeting started at around 3:0pm
with ALP President James Kevin Ty giving an infomative
lecture on basic webcam imaging and image processing.
James initially touched on the early pc webcam such as
Philips Toucam 740K that trail blaze the astro webcam
technology into the current fast and large webcams. He
then show how webcams are effective freezing the
bad seeing by recording AVI videos and splitting
the video into individual frames that stacking software
such as AutoStakkert as well as Registax merged into a
single TIF file. The stacking softwares also selects the
best frames to stack to produce a high resolution image.
Afterwards, the stacked image will then be sharpened
using wavelets of Registax as well as Photoshop. James then let ALPer Ronald
Sison do a hands on image processing of images such as
Sunspots, planets Saturn and Jupiter as well as lunar
images from what he learns from the lecture.
ALPer
Ronald Sison also brought along his huge Lego model of
an Apollo Saturn 5 rocket which is awesome! Lastly, ALP
President James announce that the ALP annual meeting as
well as Christmas Party will be held at Alice's
residence on December 10, 2017 12pm. Pot Luck Lunch was
decided so members are encourage to bring along some
foods to share with fellow members. Also announced are
the 5 current directors that are open for reelection and
they include current ALP President James Kevin Ty,
Secretary Christopher Louie Lu, Auditor Edgar Ang, PRO
Edge Lat, director Ronald Sison as well as new nominee
Mark Ian Singson. List of members that need to
renew for year 2018 will be posted on ALP internal FB
page as well as ALP FB and Viber Groups.
The event ended at around
6:30pm .
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