Fresh MARS, Dec 28th 2006

[Robert_T]

Hi All, it's been at least 2days since I imaged Mars (did you miss me :P ) and I've just got the new Kendrick dew heater controller and Astrozap combined dewshield/dewzapper in the mail (more on those in a later post) so a good excuse to take the C9.25 out for a spin. Still hoping to follow Mars down into the single digit arc sec range to see if it might still yield some surprises - it's around 12" at the mo'. A few more day should bring Solis Lacus (the eye of Mars) back into view, but at present it's the "dull side" on show.

Seeing was mediocre but not terrible.

Used the 3x barlow and ext tube to get useful image scale - no resampling. Here it is for what it's worth. Some artefacts picked up in the LR deconvolution processing, but the extra detail it provided was worth it.

Cheers,

[asimov]

Wow mate, theres some great details there in that one! Wish I could get shots like that.

I posted one just after you put this one up......I should go back & delete it!!

Well done!

[davidpretorius]

I would have loved to have been copying you from down under, but alas, the weather is shocking!! I really like this one

[space lover]

Ooh, now thats a pro looking shot, nice work :thumbsup:

[Robert_T]

Thanks for the comments guys. I've attached another process of a slighty later avi for the same evening, but this one taken through the 2.5xpowermate and resampled up. Once again I can't get as much detail through this combo as I can using the cheapy 3x barlow and extension tube with no resampling. One more score for image scale :P

cheers,