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Old 26-12-2007, 09:53 AM
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Mars 26th Dec 2007

Hi All,
Seeing was quite good, but unfortunately, I am in the middle of rebuilding my mirror cooling system, so the mirror was 4 degrees above ambient..............together with the low altitude.........mars was jelly.
I decided that I better get at least one mars for this apparition and here it is.
I captured with Lucam Recorder, centred / filtered with Ninox and then did the usual Registax 4.0 stuff.
RGB combine in AstraImage
Can't wait for Mars to head south.
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Old 26-12-2007, 10:06 AM
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Good work given the conditions Dave. I took a quick peek @ mars with Binos and it was swimming even at 8x. Still, it's better than has been the past few weeks when it's been litle more than a faint red dot, not at all recognisable, thanks to masive amounts of, (what seems to have become year long) forestry regeneration burn pollution.
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Old 26-12-2007, 11:25 AM
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I haven't even seen it for weeks, so you've done a good job Dave!

Great to open the account anyway.
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Old 26-12-2007, 08:14 PM
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Great pic. When I had a gander on Christmas Eve it was really soupy - you've done remarkably well for the 10' mirror. My 8' gave me just a swirling blob.
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Old 26-12-2007, 09:19 PM
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nice going Davo, a bloody tough object for us Southerners!
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Old 26-12-2007, 09:22 PM
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Good to see someone is getting some images!

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Old 30-12-2007, 06:06 PM
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