Mars 2020-11-02

[Ittaku (Con)]

Seeing was very good that night. I've never gotten so much surface detail on Mars before.


Celestron Deluxe CPC 1100 Edge HD, Baader UR/IV cut, Televue Powermate 2x, ZWO ADC, ZWO ASI 224MC. Captured in Firecapture 2.7 beta, stacked in Autostakkert!3, processed in The Gimp.

[Tulloch (Andrew)]

Excellent image Con, absolutely fantastic!

There appears to be a slight issue with the rim at the 7 o'clock position, the edge looks too "linear"? Might be worth a closer look?

[Ittaku (Con)]

Originally Posted by Tulloch

Excellent image Con, absolutely fantastic!

There appears to be a slight issue with the rim at the 7 o'clock position, the edge looks to "linear"? Might be worth a closer look?

Thanks a lot. Yeah I see it and I saw it at the time too. Seemed to get lost in sharpening since it accepted an insane amount of sharpening and just kept improving elsewhere. I didn't bother with masking anything out for less sharpening as even the rind wasn't too bad. Just don't magnify it on screen and all is good for now Maybe I'll go back and play with its data if we get no clear skies for a while.

[Retrograde (Pete)]

That's a cracker of an image Con. Well done!

[Saturnine (Jeff)]

That's a seriously nice image, the 7:00 o'clock artifact could be just an stacking anomaly. Might be worth having another go at it, if you haven't already and see if it goes away.
Apart from that it is nice and sharp and detailed.

[Ittaku (Con)]

For reference, this is the stacked and unprocessed image (also goes to show how important post-processing is .) Pretty sure the problem happens during sharpening.

[multiweb (Marc)]

Originally Posted by Ittaku

Seeing was very good that night. I've never gotten so much surface detail on Mars before.


Celestron Deluxe CPC 1100 Edge HD, Baader UR/IV cut, Televue Powermate 2x, ZWO ADC, ZWO ASI 224MC. Captured in Firecapture 2.7 beta, stacked in Autostakkert!3, processed in The Gimp.

Really nice. Super sharp.