Mars 12 Mar 2014 AM

[cgarry]

For once I don't feel the need to moan about the seeing being terrible!  I have noticed a lot of people moving from a colour cam to a mono cam, in order to balance things out I have gone the other way and am loving the simplicity of imaging with my ASI120MC.

This is the image I came up with, though I do have more captures to work through:

And for completeness, this is a debayered version of the capture video:

Cheers,

Chris

[JamesF]

That's a lovely image, Chris.

James

[cgarry]

Cheers James.  I have to admit it is good to have a reasonable image captured nice and early in the opposition.

Chris

[SnakeyJ]

Great image Chris and nice to see an example of the video/capture - the seeing looks very steady in comparison to my own efforts on this.    I thought more people had gone from mono to OSC for planetary imaging and I was considering following suit!   It does seem to offer a better chance when the seeing is so variable.

[oldpink]

totally stunning image
got a few myself last night but no where near that quality

[Space Cowboy]

Nice image Chris! Life is a lot simpler with a colour cam.

[si@nite]

Fantastic shot Chris, probably blow the dust of my dfk now!

[sologuitarist61]

Fantastic image Chris!

[U Cyg]

Very nice image Chris!

Angie

[cgarry]

Thanks for all the comments.

Chris

[Alan]

First class image Chris.  I keep thinking about moving to mono and filters but then I see images like this and some others fine osc images on here, and it becomes difficult to justify the expense and the added complexity.

[David Smith]

The final image is made all the more impressive when you see the data it was constructed from.

[michael.h.f.wilkinson]

Really nice.

[cgarry]

Thanks again for the comments.

I think the video does look a bit better if you just look at the best frames used for the stack.  This is the best 3500 frames from the original 24724 frames (5 minute capture):

First 2 minutes of original for comparison:

Cheers,

Chris

[stev74]

Cracking image Chris!! 

[Space Cowboy]

So thats what Mars looks like through a C14! Wobbly seeing Chris but good trans with plenty of detail on show.