Mars, this morning 23rd Sep

[iceman]

I'm a sucker for punishment.. Abbey kept me awake the first half of the night but I still got up at 3am to do some imaging of Mars and the moon.

Unfortunately the seeing was quite ordinary, about 3-4/10 and thus the image isn't as good as I'd hoped.

I had to process it fairly hard to bring out the detail because of the bad seeing, hence the bright limb edge has re-appeared :(

Anyway here it is, there are volcanoes on this image again - I think Olympus Mons is the dark spot in the lower right corner of the planet. It mostly matches up with the simulation. :)

Oh and I'm experimenting with presentation style, as you can see. :)

Comments welcome.

[vindictive666]

nice picture mike

did you perhaps just look at mars thru the ep what did u see ?
just wondering if it is worth dragging my dobbie out :)



:thumbsup:

[ving]

for an image you dont like you typed an awful lot :P

I thinks its great mike :)
lotsa detail there.

[atalas]

As the Fonz would say "heeeey" :2thumbs:

Louie :D

[LT_Ng]

Hi Mike,

This is also a good image.

Judging from your image, I think your 10" scope should be of very good optics. How about changing to use an equatorial mount?

LT

[iceman]

Hi William.

Thanks for your comments. My scope seems to perform quite well for a mass-produced optics from GSO. I am very happy with the views through it, when compared with a $5k SCT.

I've considered an equatorial mount before, but for reasons of cost, portability and convenience, I chose the EQ platform.

Like you, I suffer from small image scale since my scope is f/5 @ 1250mm FL, and I only have a 3x barlow at this stage. I'm planning on getting a 5x powermate in the near future.

[asimov]

Nice image Mike considering the 'seeing'.