Last night I said to myself, tomorrow morning you WILL get up early, go out in the cold, and image Mars.
It's been 2.5 months since I last attempted the red planet,
here was my mediocre attempt back then, without tracking.
Luckily the weather was kind, no clouds, Mars well placed and ready for an attempt.
Unfortunately I spent most of the time mucking around with the EQ platform trying to get it aligned properly so that Mars would stay in the FOV. As a result, I only got 2 workable avi's of it before it slipped behind a tree.
Anyway here's the results - i'm fairly pleased with them. The images on the right are from the simulation program "Mars Previewer II".
Images stacked and wavelets processed in registax, and deconvoluted in AstraImage.
Comments welcome