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Old 14-11-2005, 10:20 AM
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Mars double-up!

Hi all.

Here's a couple of images of Mars, taken Friday night the 11th and Saturday night/Sunday morning 12th/13th of November, from near Sydney Australia, where Mars was only 35deg altitude.

On Friday the seeing was about 4.5/10, on Saturday night it started at 3/10 which is why I used the 3x barlow, but it improved to 5.5/10 as the night went on so I went back to the 5x powermate.

The images were stacked in registax, LR deconvolution in AstraImage, followed by sharpen/noise reduction in Neat Image, and final colour balance adjustment in Photoshop.

Combined with my image from the 9th, it's 3 sessions in a row now that i've been capturing the same face.. i'm kinda ready for a new look I'll have to start a bit earlier tonight if the seeing/clouds permit!

Equipment used:
10" dob on EQ platform and a ToUcam @ 10fps

Comments welcome.
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