Mars 5 December

[rumples riot]

Once again I tried to image, and received mixed results. The seeing was average , but some nice detail can be seen on the globe. There are clouds over the western hemsiphere, near the southern polar cap.

The colour is not very good, I have a bad yellow burnout in the centre of the planet.

Still it is better than nothing.

Comments welcome.

[RB]

It looks great here Paul.
The colour looks striking on my CRT.
Great capture mate.

:thumbsup:

[asimov]

Better than my purple burnouts with the refractor Paul. Nice shot mate, hope you get better seeing soon.

[iceman]

I've had that yellow burnt out area before too, Paul. For my images, it appeared to be introduced when the gain (and/or gamma) was too high.

Unfortunately there was nothing I could do to process it out.

Now I try and keep the white level meter around 150 for Mars, and it seems to give me the colour I'm after.

[Robert_T]

Nice one Paul :thumbsup: I quite like the colour, makes mine seem a bit washed out in comparison - will post shortly one from last night:) cheers,

[gbeal]

Yes Paul, as you say, burnt out in the middle.
I agree, it looks like either the "wrong" settings at capture, or "overcooking" it in processing.
But as you say, a darn good shot given the circumstances. Fleetingly smaller by the day.
Time to switch to the big boys??

[rumples riot]

Thanks guys for the comments.

Mike I think your right, I seem to remember that I had the meter up around 180ish. I was trying to eek out a bit more detail.

Gary, definitely wrong settings and could have overcooked the deconvolution a little. Yes Mars is getting smaller all the time and it will soon be gone for another 2 years. First chance to image it, bad seeing, clouds most nights and my neighbours tree.

The tree however is getting a trim. The neighbour has agreed that two limbs need to come down, (the ones I need down). I am going to pay for it, but it will give me enough sky to see the planets transit the meridian. The arbourist comes tonight to give me the quote. That will make life easier.

[gbeal]

Paul, comments, not critism, a while back almost all here would have been in raptures with an image like that.
Now? Well we have all grown used to top quality images, yours included: the bar has been raised significantly in the year or so.
Good move with the trees, I guess I am spoilt.
Only trouble with changing from Mars to Jupiter/Saturn is the settings tend to change as well, time to re-learn them all.
Gary

[rumples riot]

Gary, I did not think anyone was criticising. Yeah, the bar keeps being raised all the time especially by a flightless and featherless Bird.

Keep on trying that's all I can do.