Mars from 7 October 2020 with reasonable seeing

[jonathancd]

After two weeks of cloud and rain, I was really pleased to get out tonight to image Mars.  Seeing was reasonable too so managed to get some nice surface detail.  Imaged using an Altair GPCam3 290C and TEC140 with 2.5 barlow.  Processed with Autostakkert3 and Microsoft photo, best 5% of 4000 frames.  Thanks for looking.

Mars

[jonathancd]

Here's another from about an hour later, same equipment as above.

Mars

[Spacecake2]

Amazing photos of Mars! Can you please tell me what model your telescope is?

 

[jonathancd]

 

7 hours ago, Spacecake2 said:

Amazing photos of Mars! Can you please tell me what model your telescope is?

 

The telescope I used is a TEC140.  It is quite a high end triplet refractor.  It is good for planetary imaging, particularly when the seeing is less than perfect, to extend the focal length I also used a GSO 2.5x barlow lens

[Pete Presland]

Lovely detail showing there.

[Spacecake2]

8 hours ago, jonathancd said:

 

The telescope I used is a TEC140.  It is quite a high end triplet refractor.  It is good for planetary imaging, particularly when the seeing is less than perfect, to extend the focal length I also used a GSO 2.5x barlow lens

Thank you! 😃