Mars 6th March

John Hothersall · #1 06-03-2014, 07:37 PM

SPX350 F38.4, PGRFlea3, Baader RGB. RGB 1436hrs UT.

Pushed the 5xPowermate to 8.5x for tiny Mars (fl 13,500mm). Seeing looked good after collimating on a star, with the Airy disc I could see a central dot and arcs around the star. Once I found Mars the surface detail looked good but seeing was variable and deteriorated as Mars climbed higher.

Thanks, John.

Camelopardalis (Dunk) · #2 06-03-2014, 09:01 PM

Very nice John, lots of detail, thanks for sharing

John K · #3 06-03-2014, 09:06 PM

That is a really sweet image John,

Very smooth, low noise and great colours.

Have you though about resizing it to a larger size?

SkyViking (Rolf) · #4 06-03-2014, 10:27 PM

A very nice and natural looking image. Great work as usual John

John Hothersall · #5 06-03-2014, 10:40 PM

Thanks for comments.

Quote:

Originally Posted by John K

That is a really sweet image John,

Very smooth, low noise and great colours.

Have you though about resizing it to a larger size?

I have updated with a 1.5x bmp image. I was just disappointed with result so posted what I got, I normally resize later but forgot this time.

John.