ToUcam Mars

[beren]

Got home Friday after doing some country work {the last of it for a while :drink: } and had two nice surprises ...beautiful clear skies and a ToUcam adapter waiting for me to try . Had the scope set up well before sundown and started experimenting with the ToUcam settings just after 8.30 . Seeing was OK but not to flash but i was able to get some detail on the preview screen through K3ccdtools and soon started capturing AVIs . The image attached are the end results , stacked and tweaked in registax , shame about the soft focus but hopefully by the end of the week i will have something that will help that out :wink2: .Looks like another clear night tonight as well , i think the warm weather is starting in the West :) {Holidays in 4 weeks time :P ]

[asimov]

Hey Beren. Nice shots dude! Good details present too. Your focus is not too far off I don't reckon.

[Robert_T]

Hi Beren - striking contrast on those martian features there!:)

Do you use the RGB align tab at right during the wavelets stage in Registax (if you're using version 3)? It looks like the red and blue colour channels are a bit separated on these with colour becoming bluish on one limb and reddish on the opposite. Selecting the "estimate" button under RGB align tab might assist rectifying this.

cheers,

[RB]

Very Nice Beren and theres' lots of detail too.

Well done.

[Striker]

Very Nice Stuart...they look great to me.

[atalas]

They look good Stuart with lots of detail !

[beren]

Cheers gang :) Thanks Robert for the tip , i had a go at it but it introduced some strange artifacts but ill continue to muck around with the settings .

Later in the night I used the LPI for some comparison and i couldn't get a image worth showing , the ToUcam is much easier to manipulate and use ...data transfer from the laptop to the PC is a pain though , glad i got a 1 gig key drive :)


{PS: If anyone is thinking of getting a ToUcam check the US dealer OPT -the celestron nextimage is on special for 99US {about 135 AU} }


Pss

attached is a image from last night , clear but to windy