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Mars 30 Jan 2010

Started by MarkS, Jan 31, 2010, 02:24:10

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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.   
It is healthier to be mutton dressed as lamb, than mutton dressed as mutton!

Mac


MarkS

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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.