Mars - Dec 28 - 9pm - Brisbane

[matt]

Grabbed this earlier tonight.

Saw some clear sky and didn't care that Mars was only at 25 degrees.

Seeing not flash, but not the worst I've seen it here either

C9.25, DMK21AF04, 3x Barlow, quick process in R4 and some touches in PS7.

Looks very similar to the capture featured in my avatar taken weeks ago. Just a slightly different tilt and rotation, as well as increased phase.

Cheers.

[matt]

And here's a 150% B-Spline from another AVI.

The seeing had an effect on the sharper detail, but it's not too bad.

Happy to have captured anything, to be completely honest

[edwardsdj (Doug)]

It's amazing how much detail you are able to capture Matt

[iceman (Mike)]

I like it Matt. The seeing looked good here, but I was doing some DSO imaging.. I just didn't want to waste time on a 26deg alt Mars

I'm going to try for Saturn tomorrow morning, and Venus if it's not behind the tree yet.

Keep 'em coming!

[davidpretorius]

Good work Matt,

i have been surprised with mars in that how crappy / soupy the seeing can be, but still the details seem to show up relatively ok.

I spose with Jupiter, there are lots of fine detail and less contast then the red / black of mars.

The blue channels have also been showing some detail, when I thought it would not show much at all??

[beren]

nice one Matt

[matt]

Thanks guys.

I am hoping I might get another chance tonight, what with Mars' more 'interesting' features coming into view, but it's windy as all heck here this afternoon

Maybe it'll settle down by 10/11pm???

In the rush to capture a few Mars AVIs I keep forgetting that Saturn's up and ready for another seasonIt's actually up quite high here in the early hours in Brisbane. It'll be at 52 degrees at 3.30am tomorrow.

Cheers.

[ving (David)]

not bad matt

did i miss the colour version?

[matt]

Thanks, David.