Mars 8th Feb LT

[Maurice]

Seeing was a bit better this morning (surprisingly so... as its going to hit 40C today).
Attached is an image taken at 5:40am.

Cheers
Maurice

[Logieberra (Logan)]

Nice. What's your setup there Maurice?

[Maurice]

Thanks Logan

I am currently using a C14 on an EQ8.
Getting to about 8m FL with a 2x barlow and using an ASI120mm camera with Custom Scientific BVR filters.

Regards
Maurice

[MarkJ]

Impressive image Maurice. You do a great job producing them without processing artifacts.

Mark

[Maurice]

Originally Posted by MarkJ

Impressive image Maurice. You do a great job producing them without processing artifacts.

Mark

Thanks Mark. The weather was on my side this morning...

Maurice

[John K]

Beautiful Maurice - nice shots of Olympus Mons coming into view.

I was too tired from imaging this week to get up this morning but looks like conditions were good for you.

John.

[Maurice]

Originally Posted by John K

Beautiful Maurice - nice shots of Olympus Mons coming into view.

I was too tired from imaging this week to get up this morning but looks like conditions were good for you.

John.

Thanks John.
I was lucky with the weather this morning.


Maurice

[Solar (Ralph Smith)]

Wonderful result.

[Maurice]

Originally Posted by Solar

Wonderful result.

Thanks Ralph

[Quark (Trevor)]

Impressive work Maurice, a top all-round result.

Regards
Trevor

[icytailmark (Mark)]

very nice maurice. Do you use firecap? what settings did you use?

[dutch2 (Ingrid)]

Wow, great image.
Well done.

[Maurice]

Originally Posted by Quark

Impressive work Maurice, a top all-round result.

Regards
Trevor

Thanks Trevor.
I'm hoping that we'll have a Mars apparition with decent seeing down here...for a change..

Originally Posted by icytailmark

very nice maurice. Do you use firecap? what settings did you use?

Thanks Mark.
Yes, I use Firecapture. I have been running 50% gain @ 50FPS with R & V filters & then about 70% gain & 35FPS with the B filter. All captures are about 140s long in a 240x320 window. I am expecting some new filters, so I think these settings might change soon.

Originally Posted by dutch2

Wow, great image.
Well done.

Thanks Ingrid..

[icytailmark (Mark)]

do you use a flip mirror? im having alot of trouble getting planets centered on the asi 120mm. Im also using a c14 scope.

[Maurice]

No Mark, I don't use a flip mirror.
I just center the planet with an eyepiece & then change it for the camera.

Cheers
Maurice