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iceman
10-11-2005, 09:32 AM
Hi guys.

Even though I was very tired the other night after 16 hours at work that day, the sky was clear for the first time in 6 days so I had to take advantage of it.

Here's my Mars efforts from that night, I got about 10 avi's but really only one of them had acceptable seeing and produced a decent result. The seeing fluctuated quite a bit, but never really got in the (what I'd consider) "good" range.

The 6 images are processed in the following way:

Top Row:
- Left column: Registax wavelets only
- Middle column: = left column + ME deconvolution in AstraImage + Colour Balance fixing in photoshop
- Right column: = left column + colour balance fixing + unsharp mask in photoshop

Bottom Row:
- Same as top row, except the whole row processed in NeatImage for sharpen + noise reduction.

I'm not sure which I prefer the most, probably the middle or right images on the bottom row.

I had intentions of getting up at 3am to image Saturn this morning, but I must've turned the alarm off in my sleep because I woke up at 6:30am and had to deal with peak hour traffic and no parking at work :grumble:

Comments welcome.

bird
10-11-2005, 11:54 AM
Nice images Mike - you got the SPC as well and thats getting very small these days.

Bird

ving
10-11-2005, 11:57 AM
nice shot mike mikey :)

dont you hate sleeping in! :rolleyes:

gbeal
10-11-2005, 01:33 PM
Nice shots Mike, seeing and altitude is all it is about huh?
Mine have not been worth sharing.
Gary

asimov
10-11-2005, 06:17 PM
Very nice Mike.

atalas
10-11-2005, 08:28 PM
Beautiful shots Mike !

davidpretorius
10-11-2005, 11:28 PM
great work, i agree!!!

iceman
11-11-2005, 05:37 AM
Thanks for the comments folks!

It's a shame Mars is already getting smaller.. I miss him already :)

davidpretorius
11-11-2005, 07:03 AM
damien peach's seem to be getting bigger!!!

http://homepage.ntlworld.com/damian.peach/2005_11_06rgb_DAP.jpg

iceman
11-11-2005, 07:08 AM
Wow! Look at Olympus Mons!

He resamples his images to make them bigger. I'd love to see one of his images at normal scale.

davidpretorius
11-11-2005, 07:11 AM
resamples via registax???

iceman
11-11-2005, 07:14 AM
Possibly/probably, not 100% sure how he does it though.