Hello father.
It's been 12 days since my last imaging session.
I'd been having imaging withdrawals, so planned to get up early to do some imaging - jetstream or no jetstream. Turns out, no jetstream!
Glad about that, because it was 3am!!
The seeing was on the good side, about 7/10. I was hoping the avi's would produce my best Mars image so far, and it came close, however I think the shots I took on the
25th August were marginally better as the seeing was also a tad better.
I experimented with the processing on these, trying lots different things - the large one at the top is 1.9x resampled in registax. The other large one is because I stacked my 2x and 2.4x barlows together, to give a FL of 6000mm. The seeing was just up to it, but not quite as some nasty artifacts were introduced during processing as you can see. Also it appears stacking these 2 fairly poor quality barlows scatters the light a lot, it required a huge RGB shift in registax to align the red and blue channels. I'm guessing that a 5x powermate wouldn't have this problem.
I'm fairly happy with these, Mars is getting bigger and that's a good thing! However it only gets to 40-45deg in the north, which is a bad thing!
These shots taken with the 10" dob on the EQ platform, and the ToUcam @ 5fps and some at 10fps as the seeing deteriorated towards the end of the session.
Comments welcome.
it'd be interesting.
