Hi all,
I thought my first Mars data was too poor to get any results from it. Did some wavelet processing in Registax and I thought I was just amplifying the noise. When I put together this animated sequence though, I realised the features I was seeing were in fact rotating with the planet.
This four frame animated GIF shows about 1 1/2 hours of rotation of the planet. You can see Syrtis Major slowly rotating into view.
First image is the animated GIF with all four frames. The remaining images are the four individual frames.
Celestron C8 with 2x Ultima Barlow (f/20 4000mm focal length)
SPC900NC webcam
Each image stack of approx 300 frames
Captured with K3CCDTools 1
Stacked and processed in Registax 4
GIF animation created with GIMP 2.4
Thanks for looking. Any comments, suggestions, critisism most welcome
I'm only just learning what can be pulled out of what initially looks like bad data
Have fun,
Doug