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Old 09-05-2014, 05:38 PM
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Camelopardalis (Dunk)
Drifting from the pole

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Mars from Sydney, May 8th

Having had my appetite whet earlier this week, the promise of another reasonable evening in Sydney urged me to put the C11 to the test. SkippySky was predicting seeing as '7' much the same as Monday night, but also predicting the seeing would deteriorate later. This turned out to be the case, as my attempts at getting some better shots of Saturn failed, and after midnight clouds pulled over. I'd just packed up and it started to rain!

The kit:

C11 Edge HD on EQ6
TV Powermate 2.5x
QHY5L-ii, 640x480 ~30fps

The images were stacked in AS!2 and processed with some sharpening and tweaking of the red channel (+5%), the first from 25% of 4000 frames, the second from 15% of 5000 frames.

Looks like cloud over Hellas and Eden/Chryse and north of Acidalium
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