First try at Mars with 180pro Mak

[Arushin]

Hi everyone,

this is my first try during first light with my new SW 180 pro Mak.

I am not too unhappy but would love any feedback or pointers as I can't decide whether or not the focus was a little off.

Used a 3x Meade barlow and a Philips webcam. This is about 1000 frames stacked in Registax 6.

[beamish]

TBH I think the focus must have been pretty much spot on -you've cloud detail there. That is a very good capture of a rapidly decreasing Mars, I'd be very happy with that ! Well done , keep going !!

[Arushin]

Thanks Beamish.

Always nice to get good feedback. Can't wait to have another go, but it looks like the cloud is here to stay for a while. I hate these drought conditions

[Pete Presland]

looking pretty good to me as well, maybe a bit noisy perhaps, but i would happy with it

[AztecastroMcJ]

Yep nice 1st light there,

looks good esp given Mars app size and uk conditions

[JamesF]

Did you do an RGB align? Looks like there might be a bit of a blue fringe towards the top, though it could just be "edge on" cloud. It's certainly an excellent first attempt. f/45 is a monster focal ratio to be imaging at

James

[Clayton]

Looks OK to me. How many frames in total did you capture?

[neil phillips]

Good first light, blueing around Mars is something ive got a lot of, one trick if the blueing isnt a rgb align problem is to do a rgb split. lower the blue channel a bit with blacks on image analyzer hey presto most of it goes. Mainly becuse you shrunk the offending glow

[Ibbo!]

As the others have said Mars is shrinking quite quickly

good capture

Steve