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Astronomy => Astrophotography => Topic started by: MarkS on Jan 31, 2010, 02:24:10

Title: Mars 30 Jan 2010
Post by: MarkS on Jan 31, 2010, 02:24:10

Not my best Mars - the seeing wasn't that good.  Anyway, here it is.  It actually came out better than it looked in the eyepiece.

Eyepiece projection using 15mm eyepiece on Celestron C11 and using a Philips SPC900 webcam.
500 frames of 0.2 sec stacked in Registax and then mild deconvolution applied

(http://gallery.orpington-astronomy.org.uk/albums/userpics/10046/mars30jan2010.jpg)

Mark
Title: Re: Mars 30 Jan 2010
Post by: Fay on Jan 31, 2010, 08:17:56
Well done, Mark. It really is a must do subject, at the moment. I have never tried. Had to go out last night, so no getting outside yesterday for me.   
Title: Re: Mars 30 Jan 2010
Post by: Mac on Jan 31, 2010, 09:16:54
Nice capture.

Mac.
Title: Re: Mars 30 Jan 2010
Post by: MarkS on Jan 31, 2010, 20:32:10
Mars is looking even better tonight (Sunday 19:30) - seeing is pretty good - Sirius is hardly twinkling.
Title: Re: Mars 30 Jan 2010
Post by: RobertM on Feb 01, 2010, 08:25:30
Good start Mark.  0.2s is quite a long exposure for planetary imaging so I'm not surprised it's a little blurred.  Even so it looks like there's plenty of tantalising detail going to be present when conditions improve.