Mars just now 18 Dec 05 - better seeing

[Robert_T]

Hi All, seeing a little better tonight, say just above average 6/10, and the skies were cloudless.

Was able to capture a little more detail than last few previous nights, but am having to extend the extension tube to keep up the image scale. The attached was 750 frames from 2000 in registax with an LR deconvolution run in Astra Image 2 - this revealed more detail but also introduced a strange "rill like" artefact near the right edge.

Took nearly ten avi's so hopefully with some groping around tomorrow might improve slightly on this.

cheers,

[ballaratdragons (Ken)]

That is pretty cool Rob, especially as the 'seeing' was only 6/10.

Yep, poor old Mars is on it's way away from us

[Robert_T]

Thanks Ken. Still hoping for one night's excellent seeing in the next couple of weeks for Mar's last Hurrah


cheers,

[beren]

Nice work Robert , ive spent a couple of evenings trying to get a decent image but its tough youve done well

[ving (David)]

good stuff robert!
nice n' clear

[asimov (John)]

That's a wonderful image Rob!! Me likes that a LOT!