I'm excited!

[iceman]

Captured my best ever avi's of Mars last night! Incredible detail I thought I'd never be able to produce.

At first the image was wobbling around so bad I almost packed up straight away, but forgot I hadn't collimated for 2 weeks, checked it and it was way out. After collimating the image settled down nicely, and after a hot day it took longer for the scope's temperature to settle down too.

The seeing was great, the jetstream wasn't there and I'm excited about processing them today!

It will be my best Mars image by a LONG way. Will hopefully post them this arvo.

[h0ughy]

Congratulations Mike. I don't know about your skies but mine are extremely light polluted at the moment, and high humidity and junk in the air is reflecting the light everywhere. I could not see most of scorpio last night or orion due to this "light". I too have been looking at that jet stream and the approaching front. If we are lucky we might get tonight in as well. I even broke out the lpi and the laptop (now you know thats a big move for me) but since i couldn't achieve polar alignment I gave up in disgust. maybe I should have got the meade out?

I look forward to what you can produce Mike, the standard seems to have been set by Paul and Anthony.LOL Hope you can eclipse their efforts!!

[davidpretorius]

good one big kev,

have you processed it yet!!!

[netwolf]

Darn, I new i should have gone out.. Missed a perfect night. Cant wait to see your images Mike.

One problem i have is that the house next door is quiet high and Mars just gets over the roof of it when its at its peak. The one night i looked at Mars for the first time it was very blured, and I could see the heat coming of the roof tiles.

[ving]

waiting... waiting....
:P
welcome back by the way :)

[RB]

Welcome back by the way,


waiting.... waiting...... :)

I think ving said it best....:nerd:

[rumples riot]

Hmmm, they must be good if you posted here. Wonder what it will look like.

[iceman]

I hope it will look like Mars.

[ving]

yes we can only hope mike.... as much as i like mars bars i should think if it looked like one you'd be disappointed :P

[Starkler]

How was the seeing compared to Monday night at Snake Valley Mike?

[RB]

And can you imagine if it turns out to look like a Jupiter bar, Mike will freak...

:doh:

[ving]

thats a good question... did you do any imaging at SV... is it on the forum somewhere and i missed it?

[rumples riot]

Yes I should have clarified that statement. Hopefully it will look like Mars, but how good I wonder.

[asimov]

Welcome back Mike. Waiting, lol.

[h0ughy]

Yes in the absence of a image from Mike, here is one he may have done earlier, notice the feature on the surface MareMikeus findus :)

[asimov]

Ummm....yes....well....needs more images stacked, too grainy. Better get yourself an LPI. :lol:

[davidpretorius]

listen here asimov, a toucam is better than a lpi or even a $10,000 sbigus ccd liquid hydrogen colled camera!!!!!

They are the best, They are the best!!!

Great pic houghy!

[RB]

Houghy,

Get a ToUcam....
Get a ToUcam....
Get a ToUcam....
Get a ToUcam....
Get a ToUcam....

Nice Image BTW,

What are the details.......:nerd:

[asimov]

Wat ROT! throw them both out & got youself a KODAK my boy!

[davidpretorius]

hey asi, did you retreat out of the lpi vs toucam thread like me????

[rumples riot]

You guys are funny. Cracked up when I read the first post on getting a toucam and did not stop laughing till I reached the bottom. Yeah the old my camera is better than yours is funny. Put some of that on the thread that deserves it. Mike probably won't want this diversion to his thread.

[asimov]

No...Just waiting for chapter 2 to unfold.

[davidpretorius]

cmon mike, your making us spam!!!! post a pic post a pic.

maybe just a red channel , a little teaser!!!