First Mars out for the 23rd Feb

[Clayton]

I was too tired to stay up and process this morning, as I had to head to work
This is my first attempt at the first AVI.
Not sure if I will get through it all before bedtime tonight

[Quark (Trevor)]

Nice work Rob, arrrr sleep, amazing how little we can get away with during a run of seeing. Work, well thats another thing. Fortunately I no longer have that problem.

Cheers
Trevor

[Lester]

Very nice detail there Rob, the cloud stands out and detail within the pole cap. Is this with the DBK?

How many images stacked? Looks to me like it could be your best so far. All the best.

[lepton3 (Ivan)]

Good detail Rob, you're improving your technique with each session. That cloud is pretty stark!

-Ivan

[Shiraz (Ray)]

yep, better and better - fine detail in this image. Regards Ray

[Clayton]

Originally Posted by Quark

Nice work Rob, arrrr sleep, amazing how little we can get away with during a run of seeing. Work, well thats another thing. Fortunately I no longer have that problem.

Cheers
Trevor

Thanks Trevor!
Re work
I'm looking forward to that day

[StephenM (Stephen)]

Nice detail Rob. You picked up those clouds nicely.

Cheers,
Stephen

[Clayton]

Originally Posted by Lester

Very nice detail there Rob, the cloud stands out and detail within the pole cap. Is this with the DBK?

How many images stacked? Looks to me like it could be your best so far. All the best.

Thanks Lester!
Yes this is with the DBK 618
This is 400 frames from 34,000
I am still playing with different options

[Clayton]

Originally Posted by lepton3

Good detail Rob, you're improving your technique with each session. That cloud is pretty stark!

-Ivan

Thanks Ivan!
I have been playing with 10min captures
But I think the seeing was a little better this morning

[Clayton]

Originally Posted by Shiraz

yep, better and better - fine detail in this image. Regards Ray

Thanks Ray!
I reckon it was just better seeing though

[Clayton]

Originally Posted by StephenM

Nice detail Rob. You picked up those clouds nicely.

Cheers,
Stephen

Thanks a lot Stephen

[Clayton]

Here's one from a bit later in the morning at f29 400/20,000 frames (6min) (the first one was at f27)

[astronobob (Bob)]

Looking very nice Rob ! amaizing markings and all, great stuff !

[Clayton]

Thanks Bob

[Kevnool (Kev)]

Thanks Rob for a Birthday Mars.

Cheers

[Clayton]

Originally Posted by Kevnool

Thanks Rob for a Birthday Mars.

Cheers

Happy to be of service
I hope you have a great Birthday Kevin

[asimov (John)]

Nice work Rob. Horizontal lines in the first; I can relate of course, having the same cam. You could try cutting that image out of the background & then replacing but with a 45 degree rotation before combing. Some software programs are hopeless for this though. Anyway, sometimes this will kill these lines stone dead.

Nice work mate!

[Rigel003 (Graeme)]

Very nice images with lots of detail Rob. Well done. Maybe the processing has been pushed a bit to produce some graininess in the background of the 2nd. With such a long capture window I'd encourage you to stack more frames to get a smoother background.

[asimov (John)]

Well a lot depends on the seeing at the time but I certainly agree with Graeme here Rob. Even in 1/10 I'd be stacking more than 400. Depends on the *type* of seeing too of course!

Normally I don't bother capturing when the jetstream is blurring the live feed out 100% but studying your image(s) they suggests conditions were better than 100% jetted out. These days it's 2000 in the stack minimum, & if that doesn't work out it's off to the recycle bin.

[Clayton]

Thanks Asi and Graeme
I will be trying your suggestions