Mars from murrumbateman, Nov 13

[bird (Anthony Wesley)]

Got home from Snake valley and found my Astronomik IR-pass filters waiting for me (thanks to Mike at Bintel for chasing these up!).

Last night I tried the "ProPlanet 742" which passes the near infrared, I combined it 70/30 Red/IR to get luminance.

The seeing started out superb at around 9pm when I was setting up, sadly there are no planets to see at that time with any detail :-( By 4am the seeing was not so good but with the help of the IR filter the result was ok.

Scope: http://www.acquerra.com.au/astro/lexx.html
Camera: Point Grey Dragonfly2 16bpp

Red @ 40fps for 90s
Grn @ 40fps for 60s
Blu @ 40fps for 60s
IR @ 30fps for 40s

Combined 70/30 Red/IR for luminance

regards, Bird

[CoombellKid]

Very nice Bird... very nice indeed.

regards,CS

[Astroman (Andrew Wall)]

Can you do one with and without the IR filter? Does it make a huge difference? My guess it does.

[bird (Anthony Wesley)]

It does make a difference, especially with it at such a low altitude the dark surface markings are much more defined in IR. I'll see if I an show it later.

cheers, Bird

[Inmykombi (Geoff)]

Lovely Image of Mars.

I hope I can take images like this one day soon.

geoff

[Dennis]

Another stunner Anthony - well done! Mars looks so natural in this post, a testimony to your skillful capture and processing techniques.

Cheers

Dennis

[davidpretorius]

well done Bird

[bird (Anthony Wesley)]

Version #2, getting used to IR+R for Luminance is tricky...

cheers, Bird

[iceman (Mike)]

Very interesting, nice results Anthony! I can't wait to see your images in very good seeing.

[rumples riot]

Superb images Anthony. Clearly the best to come out of Australia so far. Hope you get some more nice seeing.

[Exfso (Peter)]

Excellent images Anthony, you continue to raise the bar.