mars last night

[cosmos]

well here is my latest from last night and YESSSS i am chuffed to bits its my best image of mars yet with only a f4 scope, after two years i got so excited last night lol, i know its not much of a image compared to a lot on here but it made me feel like a kid again, wife thought i had finaly gone nuts, and thank you all on here for your advice and help otherwise i would still be looking at a orange fuzzy ball, so come on saturn i'm ready for yer lol, oh and i found out magnifying mars on starry night actually shows the planets true rotation so its handy to check that image against the land mass on mine..........

keep smiling all

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[Cloudwatcher]

Very nice capture! Sharp and good colour.

I have a LXD 75 which hasn't been used for ages. Might give it a go now,weather permitting.

Cheer

CW

[themos]

Well done, I had a good feeling about last night's seeing... I attacked Mars with an afocal Canon compact instead of the webcam. I am looking forward to processing that.

[barkis]

A splendid capture Cosmos.

How many subs was that?. It's a great result mate.

Ron.

[cosmos]

hello ron,

it was 500 frames at 10fps registax processed about 150 of those then tweaked the wavelets in registax and thats it i will see what i can do in photoshop see if it enhances it anymore, taken on F4 with 5x barlow giveing me f20 thats about the limit of the optics.

Tell you what ron i found the magic button in wavelets in registax that enhances the land mass, came across it accidently while playing.

I am still chuffed to bits though this has just made me even more keen (wife or telescope hmmmm close call) lol

[barkis]

hello ron,

it was 500 frames at 10fps registax processed about 150 of those then tweaked the wavelets in registax and thats it i will see what i can do in photoshop see if it enhances it anymore, taken on F4 with 5x barlow giveing me f20 thats about the limit of the optics.

Tell you what ron i found the magic button in wavelets in registax that enhances the land mass, came across it accidently while playing.

I am still chuffed to bits though this has just made me even more keen (wife or telescope hmmmm close call) lol

No contest Cosmos, you can't cuddle a telescope. Well, you can, but you will get some funny looks mate.

[legion48]

Nice one Cosmos.