first half decent Mars in mixed conditions

[oldpink]

viewing has been hit and miss all night
lots of boil earlier tonight so Jupiter was a bit of a wash out

so I turned my attention to Mars an hour ago and started messing around with it while still rising

did some 2000 frame runs with a lot of LP as Mars wasn't much above the dual carriageway out my front door running east west

so popped the LP filter on the barlow, mounted it to my ASI120 MC and played with some settings in fire capture (poor frame rate of 40 - 50)

but ran a few test runs

just processed the last run to see what I had and I'm blown away I got some detail out of Mars if only some colour
under some very variable conditions
 

just hoping I can get Saturn as soon as it clears the barrage of street lamps  and cooling towers from the industrial park

on the other side of the road

[Pete Presland]

that is a pretty good image, especially considering the position and size of Mars. it is not the easiest of targets, Saturn is even trickier! i might be tempted to make it slightly less red in colour though.

[Langy]

That has to be pretty good for where Mars is at the moment.

Well done!

[PeterCPC]

Great capture - I hope to have a go when it is a bit higher. I would be happy for a result like this.

Peter

[Russe]

Great attempt! I never had ANY luck when I tried imaging Mars with a Barlow. Have since acquired a better Barlow quality but have gone off to image galaxies...

The current weather conditions can be an issue, the quality of your lens will too and the LP filter in front of the Barlow may cause funny artifacts as well...

Keep at it!!

[oldpink]

I put the LPF behind the barlow

my skywatcher barlow lens screws off screw the LPF on the the barlow onto that
had to tweak my focus slightly but got away with it

[Astrosurf]

Excellent! It doesn't look as if the ZWO ASI120MC is being sold any more. 

Alexxx

[knobby]

http://m.aliexpress.com/item/647462122.html?tracelog=storedetail2mobilesitedetail

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[oldpink]

365 astronomy still have them listed as in stock