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Old 17-01-2006, 11:21 PM
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MARS 17th Jan - BEST SINCE OPPOSITION

Hi All, ok well maybe not "the" best, but probably my best since the opposition, and with interest in Mars waning with it's size one needs to be a little sensationalist - keeping in mind too that the cities canals were definitely Asi's discovery, you can't take that away from him.

Seeing steady tonight - 7-8/10 - and the 4x powermate was cracking. I used 5 frames per second and got a better result with that compared with 10 fps - at least with Mars smaller you can get away with running a bit longer sequence before the planet's rotation smears things so capture 1200 frame over 240sec (used 750 on this). The detail on albedo features and the north polar hood for this single digit arc second mars is really approaching the better shots I got during opposition - you've got to love good seeing

cheers,
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