Mars 18/03 from Bembridge

[Space Cowboy]

Nice capture Jake! As Peter mentioned a tweak on the contrast should show off the detail a bit more.

[SnakeyJ]

Thanks Stu - I was past caring after work last night and fell asleep on the sofa - might sneak some tweaks in at work today;)

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[JamesF]

That's an excellent image

James

[Virgoman]

Cheers Jake  ! Utterly hopeless here at the moment......

                                Best regards,

                                                       Ralph

[SnakeyJ]

Cheers Jake  ! Utterly hopeless here at the moment......

                                Best regards,

                                                       Ralph

On the plus side, Co Antrim is considerably drier than the wet and wild western side beyond the Sperrin's!     

[Pete Presland]

that is another cracking image, blue always very soft/mushy to me. you are doing the QHY5L proud!  i guess you a using a barlow for this image scale?

everytime i have been out lately it has clouded over just before Mars makes an appearance

[AlexB67]

Very nice image 

Took me a while to work out the other day to know what were clouds and I though to be something else like an ice cap at first. Excuse my noobness on Mars   Only started recently to rationalise the various areas and those clouds look lovely at the eyepiece. 

[SnakeyJ]

that is another cracking image, blue always very soft/mushy to me. you are doing the QHY5L proud!  i guess you a using a barlow for this image scale?

everytime i have been out lately it has clouded over just before Mars makes an appearance

Thanks Pete - hoping for good seeing at these low elevations is a big ask, and I have a slight advantage at  50°41'N and a clear  dark southern horizon.     I had been using a revelation x5 ED barlow, though after much messing around found that this was causing some ghosting and blurring.     I'm now using a Baader x2.25 zoom barlow with some 100mm extension, which was giving approx 4.5x for this capture.     Not ideal due to the long extension, but performing much better than the Revelation - until I can either fix this or source a replacement (Powermates on the Christmas list )

Blue channel is always a problem, though - unless the seeing is good that is;)    I do tend to be more aggressive with sharpening blue, unless I have a good luminance layer.    Red or IR-PASS can really help with Mars, for non purists..