My daughter woke me up at 4am this morning with fits of coughing, so instead of going back to bed I braved the cold and went outside to image Mars.
Took me 1/2 hour before I was ready to capture the first avi.. kinda annoying, need to cut that down a bit. Maybe I can align the platform the night before and throw a tarp over it. Had to carry everything to the imaging location, set up and align the platform, align the finder for the ToUcam, find the planet in the FOV, focus, then I was ready to go. Then the AA batteries went dead on the platform, so I had to go get the 12v! Argh!
Anyway seeing was decent, maybe 6ish out of 10, but unfortunately I underexposed the capture and as a result, the processing brought out the dredded bright limb which is so common on Mars images this season.
The result is ok, not entirely happy with it but Mars is definitely getting bigger. I need more image scale though, I need to get a 4x barlow.
Here it is, comments welcome.