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Old 10-04-2014, 02:50 PM
Dennis
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Clavius, Copernicus, Plato, Alpine Valley from Brisbane 9th April 2014

Here are a few lunar images from last night’s session which I terminated as the seeing really dropped off after a few AVI’s. Whilst there is some nice detail, the seeing was not quite up to the focal length so there is a little softness or haze to these frames.

I pointed the ‘scope at Mars and grabbed a single AVI so I could compare the angular size of the Red Planet with the well-known Lunar Crate Copernicus to show how tiny Mars appears to most mortal imagers.

The elite planetary imaging maestros on Ice In Space obviously use a Mars orbiting spaceship to produce their outstanding Mars images.

Cheers

Dennis
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