Feb19th- Above avg seeing Mars Saturn

[John Hothersall]

Title should be Feb18th.

SPX350, PGRFlea3, Astrodon filters.

Mars F51 - 1535hrs UT
Saturn F36.4 - 1630-1830hrs UT.

Seeing was not special as Asi is keeping it to himself but for Saturn it improved somewhat. Some nice storm detail materialised in the red shots IR showed faint detail but results not bad considering the breeze which kept moving things all night till the last hour.

Thanks, John.

[Clayton]

Love Mars John :)
And Saturn is Stunning :thumbsup:

[AG Hybrid]

That image of Mars is epic. Detail in the frozen pole. great!

[asimov]

Hi John. Great images & I'm pleased you are getting something out of this seeing! Seems I've had the best of it here in Bundy which comes as a surprise, but I'll take it while it lasts. I've found though, I have to bide my time & shoot at the right time. It comes, & then it goes again & it's random as to the timing of this. I'll sit there previewing for hours sometimes! Drives me crazy, but it's the only ethical way to get the most out of this; no doubt, short lived seeing run. It'll suddenly nose dive soon. Back to the standard 2-4/10.

[Shiraz]

another set of really fine images John - beautifully processed.
regards Ray

[Quark]

A nice result all round John, nice detail with Mars, particularly in the NPC. Very nice job with Saturn, excellent rendition of the "C" ring. The animation is interesting, are you sure all of the frames are in the right sequence?

Well done.
Regards
Trevor

[John Hothersall]

Yes John I have to sit for hours too watching and waiting for the windows of improved viewing, strange as its unpredictable but you deserve it to make up for 5 years of blur - may be a change in the making for QLD over next few years?

Trevor the file names are in time order but the seeing did vary and it does look out of sequence as some detail is lost and storm detail looks similar over the time sequence, but it shouldn't be out of line but will look again.

I am always late with new stuff but AS2 seems to give better contrast detail so may reprocess with this as it is fast to see if there is an improvement, the convolution feature is not very good so I will put it into Regx6.

Thanks, John.

[John Hothersall]

Used AS2 with CS3 contrast adjustment to give improved GIF red channel.

John.

[asimov]

Tonight I've just spent on 6 hrs waiting for a decent sucker hole in the clouds. End result was not even 1 frame lol but that's how it is here.

Not sure about a QLD turnaround or a change. All my best seeing was in Febuary last year as well. Reckon it's now on it's way south. I'm expecting one more night of good seeing & then I think it might be all over. Time will tell though. This'll be one of those occasions where I hope I'm 100% wrong!

[SkyViking]

Awesome images John, it's great to see all these pics of Mars and Saturn at the moment.

[prokyon]

Stunning, the details are breathtaking! :eyepop:

[Nico13]

Very nice John, love your work.

Ken.