Well...the conditions weren't favourable but seeing Mike's great images inspired me to have a go anyway.
Here's one from early this morning (Oct 23) around 2.30am.
Mars was around the 30 degree mark.
This is the area around 320-330 degrees longitude. The major feature Syrtis Major is just coming into view. Sinus Sabaeus is also clearly in view, as is the Hellas basin.
There's also a fair amount of cloud hovering around the NPH. (North is up, BTW).
Good one Matt! I'm impressed with the detail you've got. I should get my scope out and have a go... but I've got too many excuses... clouds actually tonight, but with preparing the house for sale, preparing to go to Canada on Saturday, and cramming in extra work... what can I say... my priorities are in a mess at the moment!
You've turned a sow’s ear into a silk purse - I was out around the same time and all I managed was the sow’s ear! It was horrible – wobbling like a jelly. I am astonished that you were able to get such a good image given the conditions - well done.
Dennis - you're right. The seeing was not good. Mars was doing the big wobble dance on my screen too.
I ended up using only about 130 frames out of 1000 and to be honest I really should have only used about 50 or 60, but I needed the extra frames to stack out some of the grain.
The drop-off in quality in Registax was pretty severe.
I took a few AVIs with the DMK...but they weren't any better. You really need better seeing for the DMK to shows its worth.
... clouds actually tonight, but with preparing the house for sale, preparing to go to Canada on Saturday, and cramming in extra work... what can I say... my priorities are in a mess at the moment!
