MARS 7TH AUG 05

[OXO]

Well Well last night was AWSOME for Mars both visually and Imaging wise, the following image is my first mars pic with a Toucam and it has to be said i am quite Proud of it .Not great by any means but i love it cant wait till the next time out.

Will give you all a proper report later as i am in pain at the moment with a sprained foot(dont ask).

James

[daz]

Excellent piccies and you are rightly proud!

I did watch Mars for about 1/2 hour last night, but my equipment is not up to the imaging job!

Darren

[OXO]

Thank you Darren

Here's my final images of Mars from last Night..

James

PS:When Mars gets even bigger later this year you will be suprised what you can get out of your setup Darren.

[daz]

You think so?

OK, I guess I ought to use the time between now and then to really get to grips with it, and the settings for the camera.

And those are just excellent! What a difference the extra frames make - stunning.

[OXO]

Report..

Got an ETX125 UHTC with Autostar etc etc and tried it out last night.

Must be said i was quite suprised how well it performed even in Alt AZI Mode. Visually it tracked amazingly well keeping objects in the centre FOV of the eyepiece's(40,25,10), i used 2 star alignment and picked Vega and Cappela the goto was a little off prob due to my own faults on setup as it was first time out with the scope lol..Anyway i just synched on each object and the goto worked a treat from then on. Must of seen around 50 objects whilst waiting for Mars to come up in my uk skies(1.45am).

Now onto Mars it was AWSOME i remember 2 yrs back looking at mars with a 8" reflector i had and tonights view's beat it hands down . After viewing for around an hour i decided to image Mars with my Toucam Pro SC.1.5 and got some cracking result's i think..

James

[Ant]

Very nice results James. The ETX is proving to be a great little scope... It always amazes people that you can get images like that with a standard webcam.

Nice one

Ant

[russ]

That's an awesome looking image matey. Stunning :sunny:

And it makes me miss owning a Mak so so so so so much. I was out with the Newt last night but the view of Mars compared to the 127 was a pretty big let down. Gotta get a another Mak real soon!

Russ

[Ant]

The Newt isn't a planetary scope though! I think you best bet is to get the focuser fixed on the intes and then sell that to fund the Skymas 150! Then you'd have a great planetery scope and a great DSO scope...

Ant

[OXO]

Thanks Guy's

The Intes scope's any good russ? i always thought they were supposed to be one of the best scope's?

James