Mars 18.09 - small number of frames

[Peter_D]

I generally do any AP on my Celestron 6SE because of its tracking but the last few sessions I've been trying with my Meade 2080 SCT on an unpowered GP mount. I had a reasonable result with Saturn last time out but Mars was a lot harder to capture this time. It was quite frustrating and I only had the image centred briefly - I used a x2 barlow in front of my flip mirror.

In the end, I was going to bin the data - I only had 330 frames and not great focusing. Here's the result using 50% of the best frames.

Meade 2080; Vixen GP Mount; Canon EOS 6D.

Time of capture: 1:30 CET

Edited September 19, 2020 by Peter_D

[CraigT82]

very nice some good details there, manual tracking is tough!