Mars opposes!

[Camelopardalis]

Folks,

Luck was (sort of) in last night with Mars' opposition, the conditions were variable as you can see from the images but I was happy to have had a chance at all :D

A different face from last week for sure, hope the weather gives us more chances in the coming weeks :help:

Kit: C11 Edge HD, TV Powermate 2.5x, ZWO ASI224MC.

Edit: added image 4, a WinJUPOS "derotate" of some closely captured sequences.

Cheers,
Dunk

[andyc]

Very fine indeed Dunk. That second one looks to be one of your very best, and really nicely processed. I'm just doing a couple from last night too, we had top seeing, but I'm not in your league :thumbsup:

[kkara4]

I am with Andy, your best so far :)

Going to be very interesting to see how my image fairs compared to yours! A unique opportunity to see how two different imagers with two different systems will compare!

my blue channel shows a lot more south pole cloud than yours which is interesting

[Camelopardalis]

Thanks for your kind words, Andy! We get what the atmosphere gives us, no more no less. Then the rest is up to us :D Look forward to your pics :thumbsup:



Thanks Krishan! Interesting about the clouds...OSC v mono? I may yet be converted ;)

[janoskiss]

Very nice indeed! Gotta be happy with those shots. :thumbsup:

Conditions were poor in Melbourne but I did go take a look at around 4:30am. It never ceases to astound me how much bigger and brighter Mars gets in a matter of weeks leading up to opposition.

[John Hothersall]

Great set Dunk, I wondered if you would be out at opposition as it was clear for a time with good seeing.

John.

[Camelopardalis]

Thanks Steve, John! We were lucky for a while, but the seeing seemed to deteriorate after 10pm :sadeyes:

Looking at the WinJUPOS pic, it looks like I was a bit heavy handed with the red :screwy:

[kkara4]

It is a shame your seeing degraded after 10pm :(. Looks like John got some good conditions before that cloud came in - i was packing up already when the cloud got out to my way :lol:

Still a great result Dunk :).