Mars 19th April

[Superdavo]

Hello everyone! 

Been a while since I've visited the forum, but just recently taken my first images of Mars, and wanted to share them.

It was quite a battle to get these images - I've battled my scope being moved upstairs (construction work at our house), preventing any astronomy, my motor drive running out of battery, my RA axis coming loose, and my parents' laptop crashing, but I have finally got the data!

Taken with DMK 21AU618.AS at focal length of 4,000mm, through my Explorer 200P. IrRGB, with about 10,000 subs of which 3,000 stacked, before being edited in PS.

There are still some obvious colour errors, which I will try to fix, but for now, I'm quite happy with the result!

As usual, any constructive criticism is always welcome! 

David

[michael.h.f.wilkinson]

Nice one. Lots of detail captured There seems to be a bit of a wavelet artefact near the bottom and right-hand edge, maybe the result of slight over-processing. Always difficult to strike a balance between getting the detail out and avoiding artefacts