[iceman (Mike)]

Hey guys.

Finally had some decent seeing (first time in months) with the Jetstream vacant over Sydney area, and took the opportunity to get up early and image Mars and the moon.

I haven't processed the moon avi's yet, but here are my Mars efforts.

Things went fairly well, aligning was much quicker this time and I was capturing avi's within 10-15 minutes of walking outside at 3:30am. I'm still struggling with the capture settings to eliminate the bright limb that occurs during processing.. I can process it softly to reduce it, but I prefer to bring out the detail, and pushing the wavelets too hard is when the bright limb comes out.

Anyway here's a selection of the best from this morning, I'm quite pleased with them and even the resampled (upsized) ones turned out quite good. I wish I had that image scale all the time!

Appreciate comments and feedback.