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JohnH
10-11-2005, 10:26 AM
Still unable to get a good shot of mars so I did this last night, ETX90/LPI....

Hitchhiker
10-11-2005, 12:26 PM
That's a great image - very sharp!

ving
10-11-2005, 12:49 PM
hi john, thats lovely and sharp. hope you dont mind but its wallpaper now (pm me if you do and i'll remove it :))

JohnH
10-11-2005, 06:37 PM
:confuse2: Thanks for the kind words guys...it is killing me that I cannot get a sharp Mars pic - my mars shots were awful (see attached) and seeing was the same moon and mars both about 40 deg above the horizon.... I am begining to believe this is a limitation of my little 90mm MAK - that is not enough image scale on the LPI...for mars I had to use a 2x barlow...oh well the VCL200 is arriving tomorrow :)

atalas
10-11-2005, 08:27 PM
Love the shot John It's very sharp ! well done .

davidpretorius
10-11-2005, 11:25 PM
Nice work!

I like the moon, i am attempting to do a major stitching process at next full moon. It consists of the toucam at 200x (roughly a 6mm eyepiece) taking video passes (7 or 8 in total). breaking up those videos into roughly 150 images per pass and then stitching together.

i stuffed up the last one two months ago, and weather stuffed last moons effort, but I am determined to get a full moon image that is 2500px x 2500px and that can be zoomed in to the 200x.
fingers crossed!

h0ughy
10-11-2005, 11:36 PM
John you seem to have a recurring white pixcel in the mosaic. it that an artifact of the processing or from the LPI? Nice shots but!!

iceman
11-11-2005, 05:38 AM
Very nice mosaic John! Very sharp and nicely processed, very natural looking.