Mars in the daytime

[tornado33]

Hi all
While testing my setup for possibly viewing Comet Mcnaut round perihelion in the daytime, I was testing the Argo Navis by locating planets.
Heres a shot of Mars, taken at around 2pm a few days ago! I was also using an infra red filter (passes 800nm and longer) This is a crop of the image, prime focus with 10 inch f5.6 newtonian, stack of 2 ISO 100 shots, shutter sp. around 125th sec.

To set up I aligned the Argo navis off the Sun (with full aperature solar filter on), moved scope away from Sun, removed filter, put on camera and dialled up Mars.
I used the remove gradient feature of Iris to flatten field, as there was some uneven glare present.
Scott

[gbeal]

Unbelievable Scott, that Argo is good, yes?
Gary

[iceman (Mike)]

haha nice one, it must only be < 4" at the moment.

[jjjnettie (Jeanette)]

!!!

[davidpretorius]

i really miss mars. i grew up (astronomy wise) watching the guys image mars in 2005

[tornado33]

Thanks
Yes I love the Argo it revoutionalises my observing
Scott

[h0ughy (David)]

Originally Posted by tornado33

Thanks
Yes I love the Argo it revoutionalises my observing
Scott

SCOTT IS A REVOLUTIONALIST!!!!!!!!! I might add he is a very clever chappy

[Orion]

Originally Posted by h0ughy

SCOTT IS A REVOLUTIONALIST!!!!!!!!! I might add he is a very clever chappy

REVOLUTIONALIST Good on ya Scott!

[tornado33]

hehehe ive even signed up for the beta firmware too
Scott

[Astroman (Andrew Wall)]

great shot scott.....