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First attempts at Mars
Hi Everyone,
I'm a newbie on the forum and thought I would share my first attempts at capturing Mars. I took the photo below using a Celestron CPC 800 telescope and the Celestron Skyris 618C camera. I took over 10,000 frames with the camera and then processed in Registax 6.
Overall I am quite happy with the results and I have captured some detail on the planet as well as the Northern polar ice cap. Before taking this image I was using a 2 x barlow and was getting disappointing results. Unfortunately a 3 x barlow that I had ordered had not arrived and out of curiosity I used a 5 x Televue powermate that I had. I was not expecting a very good image but given that the conditions were quite good the final image is not bad. Hopefully on the next attempt I will have the 3 x barlow.
Regards,
Tom
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