yeehaa...mars!

[bird]

Here we go, this is the first colour image from Monday night. The raw data was grabbed at 3am, when mars was just 31 degrees in altitude... says something about how still the air was in that valley of snakes.

Equipment:

10" f/6 newtonian with 5x powermate and extension tubes for effective fl around 10m.
Tru-Tek filter wheel, Dragonfly Express monochrome camera.
stacked approx 1400 frames in each of R,G,B

regards, Bird

[janoskiss]

Yeehaa, indeed. That looks fantastic.

[h0ughy]

Amazing, look at the detail on that!! Mike will be green with envy on that one. Nice Shot Anthony.

[rumples riot]

Very nice image and now I think that I need an extension tube. I wondered how you got such good image scale. You have the best in the southern hemisphere congratulations.

[asimov]

'Yeeeha' is an understatement! Great image Bird!

[davidpretorius]

well done mate!

A lot of time and effort on your behalf has been duly rewarded.

That time and effort i am talking about is giving up your time to show us your tricks of the trade, answering all of our questions and sharing your excitement whilst imaging.

Congrats!!!

Now where is the hi res version???????

[bird]

Hi res version? *hi* res version?? whassamatta... 320x240 not good enuf for ya??

sigh. I remember when computer screens were 192x48 pixels.. them were the good ole days...

Oh well, I replaced the original image with a slightly better one, but it's still the same size...lol

Bird

[davidpretorius]

yup, bring it on damien peach!!!!

[ving]

fantasic bird! :)
you have cause to celebrate with that one. :)
think you'll ever use an eyepiece again?

[RB]

Oh man,

That's an awesome shot !
There really isn't much I can add to what others have said except-

A bird in Snake Valley is worth two in the bush......

Well done.

:)

[Robert_T]

Gotta love this one! perfectly processed with subtle detail much like - but going beyond - the eyepiece experience! Wouldn't mind learning a bit more about your camera, been thinking of going tri-colour filter monochrome for a while...
cheers,
Robert T

[rumples riot]

Nice update Anthony, Olympus mons is is quite visible in the upper left of the image. Well done.

[xstream]

Well done mate!
You deserve it, you put in more than enough effort to get it.

"The Master of Magic". ;)

[atalas]

Great shot Bird :thumbsup: can't belive you got such a sharp shot when Mars was that low .

[Dave47tuc]

Nice work Anthony :prey2:

The seeing was pretty good. I had a nice view. Glad you got such a great shot with a lot of effort. Well done. :)

[ballaratdragons]

That's terrific Bird!! Was well worth staying up until sunrise.

I won't pick on you for using EP's as I was doing it with you. I hope your Saturn shots come out good considering it was daylight when you finished capturing.

It makes me feel all warm & fuzzy seeing the photographic results of doing the Camp! ;)

[bird]

Okay, here's another one - taken about an hour earlier. This time I did a bit of resampling so the image is a bit larger than the originals.

regards, Bird

[davidpretorius]

holly bird droppings batman, this is heaven!!!!

[RB]

With this new pair of images, I went up close to the monitor looking past the images and I got an almost stereoscopic 3d view.

Awesome bird.

Thanks again.


:juggle:

[iceman]

Wow, incredible shots Bird. I was looking forward to seeing these, after the eyepiece view I was getting I knew you would've been getting some good data.

Congrats on an excellent result, and worth the 3 nights of clouds before it!

[davidpretorius]

I have just loaded this newest image into photoshop, magnified it 3 times, the detail is still tight and the damn thing takes up half my screen!!!!!!

Bird can i interest you in a mitchell 4x resample??????

[bird]

DP, I'd love to - but you know what? Registax has a bug and crashes if you try to resample FITS format images...

I store them in FITS format cause they're 16 bit monochrome, if I convert back to BMP then I go back to 8 bit monochrome :-(

Cor has known about this bug for a couple of months, maybe it'll get fixed sometime...

until then, I have to use ppmcentre to do my resampling...

Bird

[davidpretorius]

ppmcentre????, i have heard the author of that is a top bloke!!

no problems about resample, by the way, where can i get latest ppmcentre that we were chatting about?

[bird]

umm, it's only on my pc at the moment...I have to finish a few bits of it before I release it. Some things don't work properly just yet...

All good things come to those who wait...

Bird

[davidpretorius]

ok i'll wait.............................is it ready yet????


congrats on 200 posts!!!

[Wombat_In_Space]

Bird I knew you were getting some good data but the resulst are even better than I could have imagined, all that time and effort tranfering data during the night was worth the sleepless night we all got.:eyepop::prey2: :prey2: :prey2: :prey2:

You have inspired me to get myself into imaging:confuse3: , you have showen me that patiants is rewarded with the best images.:2thumbs:

[asimov]

Geez Bird, that's almost like being there! Amazing details present.:prey2:

[matt]

Bird

Awesome stuff! You've done all us Canberrans proud;)