Oh well...it's a start...sort of...maybe(?)

[northcanadian]

Hi all: 

I had my first experience with Mars last night.  It sure seems small and was wobbling like a blob of jelly.  Used a 9.25 sct, dbk21 and powermate 2.5x.  Believe was about 2000 of 3100 frames at 30 fps. Ran thru pipp and r5.  I did have a task trying to focus and all.

Thanks for looking

Roger

[oldpink]

you seem to have detail but the colour balance is wrong the pink should be orange / brown
maybe the capture settings were off

[sologuitarist61]

Nothing wrong with that image Roger - very good!

[Alan]

I have the same setup Roger and the settings I use are red 6, blue 45 which will give you a salmon pink Mars and good whites and gain set at say 800. You can get away with a half histogram and try for a higher F ratio (seeing permitting) say F30-F40 to tease out the detail. Drop the gamma to 70% (back to 100% for imaging) which will increase the contrast and let you focus by eye fairly well on a dark feature or polar cap. I usually run for about 3.5 minutes as Mars rotates slowly and stack 20-25% of frames. This works for me so I hope that you may find it helpful

[northcanadian]

Thanks guys.  I shall try those settings next time out Alan...much appreciated (I have also switched over to r6 from r5 )

Cheers

[Virgoman]

A good effort Roger! Mars is not easy to focus on when wobbling like a jelly - all to prevalent for me this apparition as well! Great advice from Alan re DBK21 - I have one of these also and may give it a go as well!

                                    Best regards,

                                                            Ralph

[JamesF]

Mars seems pretty hard to focus at all at the moment.

The colour balance is definitely a bit squiffy, but if you play with the histogram tool in Registax I'm sure that can be put right.

James

[PeterCPC]

Well done. I had a look at Mars last night but it was so wibbly wobbly that the image came out as a blob with no distinguishing features. Focusing can certainly be challenging.

Peter 

[Clayton]

Great start!

You will sort out the colour a bit later I'm sure

[Stargazer33]

A very good first go with Mars Roger.  I hope you don't mind, but I had a go at improving the colour balance on your image. I used PS7 and played with curves, colour balance and a few other things as well as cropping the image a little tighter.

[northcanadian]

Thanks all and nice tweaks Bryan...it does look much improved

Cheers

Roger