Mars is still alive & kicking! 21st feb 06'

[asimov (John)]

No jetstream here!

But a stiff breeze when I was shooting mars

200 frames stacked. 6" refractor & toUcam.

I'm going to have to reprocess this...I made a blunder in registax by giving it more saturation.

[h0ughy (David)]

Looks like a peach! i am still amazed you are imaging it.

[asimov (John)]

Lol...Now if I could just get that fuzz off the surface of that peach.............

[Robert_T]

Think I might have to concede the challenge Asi... by the time I got setup last night before 8 Mars was in the embrace of the IronBark... so unless I manage to get home and get motivated for some twlight imaging............

it's Asi John KING OF MARS 2006


an a nice shot too with some albedo surface detail still (at 7.2arc sec!!!)

[Dennis]

Asi

Your persistence is nothing short of amazing.

Cheers

Dennis

[davidpretorius]

is it true that mars will get as faint as uranus???

i was looking thru astronomy 2006 and there is a graph there and it looked like it did!!

well done asi, mar-velous!

[RB (Andrew)]

You're amazing dude.
I can see you imaging Mars till it's next close approach in two years.

[ving (David)]

alive? hahaha!!!
that some peach you have captured there!
well done asi, you sure are a champ!

[asimov (John)]

Hey thanks guys. T'was nothin'.

I'll keep at mars until it's totally un-shootable probably, it's a personal challenge thing. If I can't compete with anyone, I'll compete with myself.

A pity about the tree getting in the way Robert.

I'm running that AVI again thru registax at the moment, & if I come up with something better than the original I guess I'll post it.

[asimov (John)]

Well, Ain't this PEACHYYY! ..........No!? .....Oh, ....Ok.....................SEEYA!