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Mars again. Taken Monday night (2014-04-01@17:01UT) in average seeing. Meade LX200ACF 10", Powermate 2.5x (new addition and first light), Canon 600d using Liveview 5x in Backyard EOS.

The Powermate makes a dramatic difference but I still have some things to improve in the processing.

I figure I can use more magnification and still get a decent histogram, so I'll pursue that. I wonder, though, rather than spend days/months incrementally improving processing with a DSLR, if it'd be more worthwhile looking at getting a better camera (more sensitive, faster frame rates and lower noise - the chroma noise in the uncooled DSLR is horrendous, now that I have image scale large enough to see it).