[Startrek (Martin)]

Thursday night in Sydney was suppose to be clear until midnight but due to high wispy cloud around I decided to give DSO imaging a miss and give Mars a crack for the first time before it moves to far away from us.Ive successfully imaged Jupiter and Saturn over the years but never Mars as its always turned out to be and orange fuzz ball.Conditions were average but there were moments of reasonable stability.



6'f6 Bintel GSO newt on an EQ6-R mount
Canon 600D DSLR

Televue 4 x Powermate
Captured with BYEOS
30fps sampling rate
ISO 1600
1500 AVI file
Stacked in Autostakkert 3
Sharpened in Registax 6


When I finished Mars, I noticed a beautiful 20% waxing moon descending in the west so swung around to capture some Lunar vistas before it disappeared behind my neighbours 2 storey roof line
Same details as above but obviously with out the 4 x Powermate. In hindsight I should have bumped up the ISO from 800 to 1600 like I did with Mars.



Unlike DSO imaging you can have a good night planetary imaging with just an hour outside







Comments most welcome


Thanks