Stephen65
26-12-2007, 07:21 PM
I was imaging the Moon last night and I succumbed to the temptation to try Mars, despite it bubbling and boiling around in the low altitude soup. Actually last night here was not so bad, during clear moments I could see the poles and dark markings visually.
To image I simply re-aimed my DMK21AS.04 + IR cut filter from the Moon at Mars. I should probably have used a red filter but this was a spur of the moment thing. The native image scale was a bit small so I add a 1.8x barlow for a FL of 5400mm. This is 150/1800 processed in Registax and AstraImage. Next to it is the NASA Solar System simulator image of Mars for the same time, I was gratified to see reasonable correspondence in dark splodges.
To image I simply re-aimed my DMK21AS.04 + IR cut filter from the Moon at Mars. I should probably have used a red filter but this was a spur of the moment thing. The native image scale was a bit small so I add a 1.8x barlow for a FL of 5400mm. This is 150/1800 processed in Registax and AstraImage. Next to it is the NASA Solar System simulator image of Mars for the same time, I was gratified to see reasonable correspondence in dark splodges.