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Old 31-12-2005, 02:56 PM
rumples riot
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Mars from the South East

Hi all,

well I have returned from my trip down to Clayton and Myponga Beach. Had nice relaxing time, went sailing (have not been for 4 years), walking, looking around and most importantly imaging.

This image is from a night of 10/10 seeing. I must say that I have never seen seeing that good in 30 years of observing. The airy disk was well pronounced and the central star was a very still pin point. The unfortunate side to this was that the clouds came while I was imaging the Mars shot below. It was taken with the 5x powermate. It was so large and still (1978x magnification). Only managed to get 1000 frames before I was clouded out. Still it was great to see it so good.

Anyway here it is. A little grainy but a nice size.
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