God of War still Great! Mars 15th Jan

[Robert_T]

Hi All, following on from Asi's fine Mars last night, here's my effort, this time with the Mewlon 180 and 4x powermate (this gives around F48-50 so it's whole heap of image scale). Seeing was better than average, say 7/10 which is just as well otherwise wouldn't get away with this setup. I've attached two images both running 1/10th sec exposures but one at 5fps with less frames (793) stacked and one at 10fps (1441) stacked at right - the latter has more contrast probably cos with the greater number of frames I could "push" the wavelets higher without grain becoming a prob.

Detail is really quite good. Can even see Sinus Meridani here where the Mars rovers are crawling about (see the tracks :lol: ).

enjoy,

[ving]

theres still plenty of life left inthe boy planet :)

nice images raobert :)

[asimov]

He-he! Nearly as good as mine Rob, nice effort anyway :) please come again soon..........

:scared: Get outa here!? Their awesome mate! Infinitely Better than mine. Top shelf stuff!!!! (Don't fall off that pedestal, ya here? ) ;)

Correct me if I'm wrong, but we seem to be both getting better detail now than when it was at opposition....At least I am....'the detail is in the seeing/transparency' :confuse3: I'm having more fun with mars now than I ever have!

Great stuff mate!! :prey2:

[Robert_T]

Thanks Guys.

Asi, yeh I'm a bit surprised too at the detail that can be extracted now from Mars given it's area is now down to 1/5th of what it was at opposition. I'm thinking to some extent it must a bit like when you draw on a balloon and blow it up that the features get bigger but fainter - so in reverse as Mars shrinks the fine detail dissapears but the macro detail actual gets more contrasty and easier to see and image :confuse3:

Anyway, I'm very happy with these - anothery to add to the Mars death cycle image :P

cheers,

[davidpretorius]

great detail, this is a beauty. i tried last night, but the seeing was terrible!!

[rumples riot]

I like the left one best Robert, still getting amazing detail there Robert.

[Robert_T]

Tanks Rumples, BTW the 4x powermate seems to be a good match for the SCT and the Mewlon. 5x would be pushing it a bit too far as you've pointed out, but 4x seems pretty sweet for this planetary imaging game! :)

cheers,

[rumples riot]

Hmmm, maybe have to get a 4x, been busy of late and too exhausted to do any imaging. Besides the weather has only just broken in the last few days. Now it is 34 and roasting.