Mars 10/10/2020

[multiweb]

Had a quick look at one of the streams from last Saturday and the colors seem alright, details so so :shrug:. Will process another loop later on. Hoping it will be steady conditions tonight to have another go at it.

[Dennis]

Really nice work Marc, you're really giving Mars a good work over.:)

I've just set up tonight, and weather/conditions permitting, I hope to record a series of Phobos and Deimos, so save some photons for me.;)

Cheers

Dennis

[multiweb]

Good stuff. I tried looking for those two moons but I can't find them in the live view, even with Mars over exposed.

[Dennis]

Hi Marc

Here is a single Raw (unprocessed) file from my ASI 1600 MM earlier tonight.

I have cropped the central area of 1280x960 pixels and a 1 sec exposure reveals Phobos and Deimos.

I wonder if these tiny moons are being overwhelmed by diffraction spikes from your spider?:question:

Cheers

Dennis

[multiweb]

It's possible the angle of my spider vanes covers them yeah. I'll have to check that out.

[Retrograde]

Pretty good considering the seeing wasn't great.
Hope you got some better seeing last night.

[multiweb]

Thanks Pete. :thumbsup: Seeing was alright until 22:00 on Jupiter and Saturn. Actually much better than what I've had the previous session Saturday 10/10/2020. On Mars though it was very variable. I haven't checked all the streams yet but by 23:00 I had given up in RGB and put an IR filter on until 23:50 when I started packing up. There were intermittent cloud bands and some seriously thick muck creeping up from the South East so decided to go before it got wet.

[Troy]

Good image

[multiweb]

Thanks Troy. :thumbsup: