Mars 11-11-09

[Troy]

Mars at 8.4" and around 30 degrees when this shot was taken.
Other than a slight breeze conditions where good.
I had 4 runs last night but due to a lack of sleep only one run has been process.

Troy

[dpastern]

Nice! How do you manage to focus on such a small object?

Dave

[matt]

Well done, Troy.

That's a good capture with the gear you've got.

Motivates me to get out there early in the morning sometime over the next week or two...

[asimov]

Well done Troy, nice image.

[Quark]

Very nice result Troy,

You must have had fairly stable air over the top to get such nice RGB data.

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Regards
Trevor

[Troy]

Thanks David my capture program Lucam has a magnifier which help. But if you don't have that just use a close star to focus then slew back to your target.

Thanks matt, asimov and the jetstream was kind Trevor thanks

[Troy]

here is another one

:thumbsup:

[Troy]

This one taken at 4-00am I like this one the best.

[Jazza11]

I love these pictures of mars they are spectacular

[Quark]

A very nice collection of RGB's Troy and I also think this one is the best.
Mind you, it is only going to get better as we get closer to opposition.

Regards
Trevor

[Troy]

Thanks Jazza11, it will be interesting to see how much more detail that can be seen as mars gets closer to us thanks Trevor

[bird]

Well done Troy, a good set of images.

cheers, Bird

[iceman]

Nice work Troy, a great set of images. Your images are displaying quite a strong phase - whereas Trevor's and Anthony's aren't so much.

Are you applying too much limb darkening/gamma reduction/curves reduction which is eating into the limb?

[Troy]

Thanks bird for the kind words

Good pick up Mike
I reduce the midtones a lot. Just trying to reduce the effects of the low altitude, the lower right of the planet is really what I am on about.
Here is what it looks like without reducing the midtones to much.