Mars in variable seeing - 27 Jan 2014

[Sebbie]

Bit of an experiment..

Processed the best six out of nine three minute captures for the night. Identical workflow settings in AS!2, Astra Image and ACDSee (1200 frame drizzle stack, 8 apts).

Interestingly AutoStakkert analysed 17:54 avi as being the best in quality followed by 17:57, 17:44, 17:50, 18:00 and 17:47 files. I actually think 17:44 image has the best contrast / detail around the north polar cap.

I've combined these into 15 minute animations here
http://astrob.in/full/75321/0/ (colour)
http://astrob.in/full/75322/0/ (monochrome)

Thanks for looking,
Seb

[Stefan Buda]

These are excellent and well processed images. I hope you send them to ALPO or some other place where they can be put to scientific use.

[Maurice]

Really nice work Sebastian - well done!

Regards
Maurice

[Quark]

A very consistent body of work there Sebastian, the seeing was consistent at least for the duration of this run. Your processing looks fine, well done.

Cheers
Trevor

[Sebbie]

Thanks Stefan, I've just tried submitting to ALPO but not sure if this is the right address: @@ @[alpo-obs@nifty.com]@.

Took me a while to calculate CM and Ls values for the mid capture point..



Thanks Maurice.



Thanks Trevor, I should've said 'Mars in steady seeing' :thumbsup:

[EricB]

Great job Sebbie. I love the animations!

Cheers,

Eric

[Sebbie]

Thanks Eric, these unfortunately do take some time to put together in PS..

[PacoYepes]

very good shot, with many details

[U.K.Cowboy]

Super resolution on those Mars images very nice collection!

[Sebbie]

Thanks very much guys.

[Paul Haese]

Superb work. Like the colour and processing.