Mars 24th March

[asimov (John)]

Getting harder to image now. Need one more night with super seeing.

C11/DBK618

[von Tom (Tom)]

Great Desert Planet image John

[strongmanmike (Michael)]

Originally Posted by asimov

Getting harder to image now.

Yeh? well doesn't look like it from your excellent result .

This less featured face isn't as popular to showcase, I guess because of the lack of features present compared to other faces?

Mike

[Shark Bait (Stu)]

Is the lighter coloured circle near the centre of the orb Elysium Mons?

Thanks for posting another great shot of Mars.

[John K]

Originally Posted by asimov

Getting harder to image now. Need one more night with super seeing.

C11/DBK618

Very nice Asi!
and don't worry, in 2 years time it will be back and even bigger and brighter for us in the Southern Hemisphere.

[Quark (Trevor)]

Still a pretty nice result Asi, stick with it.

Cheers
Trevor

[beren]

Good one John nice result, hope you get some good nights

[Shiraz (Ray)]

nice one John. regards Ray

[prokyon (Werner Probst)]

Very nice!

[jjjnettie (Jeanette)]

John, it's not long until August and then Mars will be as big a the full Moon.

[lepton3 (Ivan)]

Good looking result John.

-Ivan

[asimov (John)]

And thought I'd practice my drizzling on this rather unsavory (In a bad seeing way) lot of data & I'm super impressed. This one was at F20 & drizzled by a factor of 3 then resized down again in post processing.

[lepton3 (Ivan)]

John, I'm assuming you used the drizzle function in AS!2?

Do you find you need to use a lot more wavelets to get the sharpness when you drizzle? I've found I need to almost max out layers 1 and 6, and I still don't get as good detail as I get 1x.

Just wondering if there is something particular you do in the wavelets stage to get this good a result.

-Ivan

[Paul Haese]

Last one is nice John. I like that.

[asimov (John)]

Yes Ivan AS!2 for drizzling. Yes I know what you mean about having to almost max out the waveletts but at what scale does this start to happen? F30 & upward AFAICS so I only use drizzling for small, undersampled stuff. I deliberately shot this test AVI undersampled (F20) with drizzling in mind & found it reacted normally to waveletts. Mileage may vary here & I'm not certain what's happening without further testing.