September 18, 2020: First go at Mars of the season

[michael.h.f.wilkinson]

After gathering 3 h of data on M27 with the Meade SN6, I mounted  the C8 on the Great Polaris mount, and had a quick go at Mars. I stacked 500 out of roughly 5000 frames grabbed with the ASI183MC. Stacking with AS!3, wavelet sharpening with Registax:

Quite pleased with the level of detail showing. I also took a sequence with the Meade 2x TeleXtender, but will process those tomorrow

[morimarty]

That is a very good first Mars image of the season.

[michael.h.f.wilkinson]

Just did a reprocess with 1.5x drizzle

The 2x TeleXtender data won't really stack well, probably an over-sampling problem. I should get myself a 1.3x or 1.5x tele-centric (Siebert Optics makes those, I gather)