Mars 30 Jan 2010

[MarkS]

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



Mark

[Fay]

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.   

[Mac]

Nice capture.

Mac.

[MarkS]

Mars is looking even better tonight (Sunday 19:30) - seeing is pretty good - Sirius is hardly twinkling.

[RobertM]

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.