Mars 12th Feb

[Clayton]

Too tired to write the full story, but got up early at 1:30 am on the advice of Skippy. It was lovely and clear but the seeing was down a bit on the prediction. I was all geared up to try out the 14", but for some reason? it was not tracking really well. and after several attempts to rectify it and IC Cap throwing a wobbly (my fault for not noticing that the wrong codec was selected) I spat the dummy and swapped back to the 8", and had a lovely relaxing nignt imaging and eyeballing Saturn through the 14". It truely looks magnificant through the 14" which is probably why I haven't hit it with something big and hard to date, although to be fair there are times when it tracks surprisingly well.

So I was a bit late starting, and as I mentioned the seeing was down a bit, so proper collimation was out of the question as I am sure it will always be with the 8".

This was only a rough process through Castrator, DeBayer, R6, and CS3.

I still want to try out some other processing methods, bit finding time is difficult.

In spite of everything I was happy with this initial result.

[tbird]

Nice work

[Clayton]

Thanks TBird

[si@nite]

They just keep gettin better clayton, SIMON.

[Ella]

You got there in the end with a fantastic image of Mars.....

[Pete Presland]

very nice lots of detail on show!

[Zul]

Great shot!

[bm1980]

Nice result there Rob, one of your best yet,keep up the good work,

Regards

Ben

[Clayton]

They just keep gettin better clayton, SIMON.

Thanks Simon,

I hope your'e right

[Clayton]

You got there in the end with a fantastic image of Mars.....

Thanks Ella

[Clayton]

very nice lots of detail on show!

Thanks Bunnygod1

[Clayton]

Great shot!

Thanks Zul

[Clayton]

Nice result there Rob, one of your best yet,keep up the good work,

Regards

Ben

Thanks Ben!

Hoping to improve some more

[steelfixer]

Now that is what I call a cracking image from an 8 inch Rob.

[Space Cowboy]

Lots of detail there Rob!

[Clayton]

Thanks Steelfixer, and thanks Stuart!