Extensions:

 

A few things that would have been useful to attempt would be to use color filters over the Meade Camera.  Since it is compatible with the Fits Liberator, it may have been possible to take pictures using filters the same as the New Mexico Skies telescope.  If that work then it may have worked to play the action and stack images to make color images.  This way rather than having Jupiter look blue, due to the pre-stacking by the camera, It may have been possible to get true color images.

 

It also would have been useful to attempt images of planets using New Mexico Skies.  This would allow for learning how long to set exposure times for the camera itself, and see if there were differences with the amount of stacking that is needed to be done for each color frame.

 

Acknowledgements:

 

Special thanks to Mrs. Herrold for helping me learn about image processing, letting me borrow the Meade LPI camera, a telescope to use the camera in, traveling all the way to Jackson to spend the night and use the camera, and putting up with me at all of the observing nights, and New Mexico Skies runs. Thanks also to the advanced topics in astronomy class for helping me take images during observing nights. Special thanks to Marie Lacombe for coming and imaging at NMS round two.  Last but not least thanks to Zak Schroeder for helping me with anything and everything that I was working on.

 

Bibliography:

 

http://www.spacetelescope.org/projects/fits_liberator/

http://www.astropix.com/PFA/INTRO.HTM

http://www.astropix.com/INDEX.HTM

http://www.noao.edu/noao/staff/rector/digital/

http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/

http://www.meade.com/lpi/index.html