Mars 7/12/07

[beren]

Gday grabbed a few runs on Mars last night around 2.30-4.00 after finishing work :P nice cold conditons, no wind and okay seeing. Attached image is the result of one of the last AVIs captured when the seeing seemed to improve.

[iceman]

Nice result, Stuart! How do find processing DBK avi's? Do you split them as per the ToUcam?

[Garyh]

A very nice mars! :thumbsup:

[beren]

:thumbsup:Thanks fellas.....Mike definitely always use RGB split if a AVI looks half decent :) With DBK capture I'm still having troubles capturing in Raw format and debayering in Registax so I have been using straight colour vid formats/codecs UYVY+UYVY and BY8/RGB24 where debayering is done through IC capture. With these two formats I get about 2500-4000 frames over 2 min, juggle exposure roughly around 1/30 and experiment with gain. There seems to be a lot more latitude with processing over the ToUcam :)

[rumples riot]

Nice Stuart. Keep them coming.

[rogerg]

Great shot Stuart.... I'm hoping we'll have some clear weather in the next few days so I can give Mars a shot myself, been shocking cloud and rain lately. :)

[RB]

Wow, very nice result Stuart, well done.

I wish my images would turn out half as decent as this.
I'm facing a steep learning curve when I'm going to venture into planetary imaging using the DMK.

:scared:

[beren]

:) Thanks Roger/RB, yeah the weather has been unusual for this time of the year, nights have been somewhat cool/mild with plenty of fronts moving through