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Old 29-03-2016, 07:27 PM
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A wee Mars

Folks,

While out in the wee hours of Saturday morning running tests with the 224, I took a few sequences of Mars. Fortunately, the seeing didn't look too bad. Visually, the surface was nicely detailed with the polar ice/cloud being and other high contrast features readily visible.

This test was running the 224 at almost 250fps, my little netbook couldn't quite make the magic number! I also captured a few sequences at slower frame rates which I may post later, but the seeing was dancing well even at high speed.

With the frame rate from th 224, this is a stack of 750 frames or ~3 seconds of data.

Looking forward to seeing how it looks a little closer up as we approach opposition...

Kit: C11 Edge HD, TV Powermate 2.5x, ZWO ASI224MC

Cheers,
Dunk
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