Mars 25th Nov CC

[neil phillips]

Setup after the rain and lightning. Was windy. And seeing not great. No chance with the 245mm Newtonian because of the wind. Used the Stella lyra Classical Cassegrain Was still flying around on screen. But tried the pause start technique best I could. ZWO ADC QHY462C. Baader Q Barlow Baader IR UV CUT EQ5 PRO mount.  single non derotated capture

Its not easy in good conditions, with what is effectively just over a 7" scope its even harder. But pulled some detail out.

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Edited November 25, 2022 by neil phillips

[geoflewis]

Wow Neil, what kind of magic are you using? That's very good given the terrible conditions last night. I fought for 2 hours, got frozen, but nothing much to show for my efforts.

[Kon]

8 minutes ago, geoflewis said:

Wow Neil, what kind of magic are you using? That's very good given the terrible conditions last night. I fought for 2 hours, got frozen, but nothing much to show for my efforts.

Exactly what Geof said! Wow! That's from last night? You are pulling some fine details there.

[neil phillips]

17 minutes ago, geoflewis said:

Wow Neil, what kind of magic are you using? That's very good given the terrible conditions last night. I fought for 2 hours, got frozen, but nothing much to show for my efforts.

Cheers Geof testament to how good these scopes are. I've been saying it for some time. Am surprised more are not in circulation. Premium optics for a non-premium price in my opinion. GSO got a lot of flak for reducing the size of the scope. But this is likely one reason it performs so well. Another good mass produced scope the Meade 7" F15 Maksutov used a 8.3/4 oversized primary reduced to 7" and that had the best optics of the meade scopes. I owned two of them at different times. I would put this on par with that. Actually, i think it's probably better.

 

[neil phillips]

12 minutes ago, Kon said:

Exactly what Geof said! Wow! That's from last night? You are pulling some fine details there.

First capture of the night I do have a 10 min version for de rotation try that later. Sometimes the wind was worse so this might be the best from the night anyway

Cheers Kon

[geoflewis]

24 minutes ago, neil phillips said:

Cheers Geof testament to how good these scopes are. I've been saying it for some time. Am surprised more are not in circulation. Premium optics for a non-premium price in my opinion. GSO got a lot of flak for reducing the size of the scope. But this is likely one reason it performs so well. Another good mass produced scope the Meade 7" F15 Maksutov used a 8.3/4 oversized primary reduced to 7" and that had the best optics of the meade scopes. I owned two of them at different times. I would put this on par with that. Actually, i think it's probably better.

The results speak for themselves, I think you nailed whatever was available last night. I'm nowhere close to that.

[Space Cowboy]

Looks like another good training session before we have Caribbean seeing at opposition 😉 Conditions were quite poor at my end as the rain beating against my bedroom window was keeping me awake 😜

[neil phillips]

55 minutes ago, Space Cowboy said:

Looks like another good training session before we have Caribbean seeing at opposition 😉 Conditions were quite poor at my end as the rain beating against my bedroom window was keeping me awake 😜

Forever the optimist. We had lightening our end, loud sucker too. All trained up Without a good sky to get 😂 

[neil phillips]

Two 6 min de rotations

Edited November 25, 2022 by neil phillips

[geoflewis]

7 minutes ago, neil phillips said:

Two 6 min de rotations

Loks like you teased out a bit more detail Neil.

[neil phillips]

6 minutes ago, geoflewis said:

Loks like you teased out a bit more detail Neil.

Slightly more natural and wispier looking perhaps. But as mentioned on your post. it's not where we want to be. But what is it they say about the British. Stiff upper lip. 

[geoflewis]

1 minute ago, neil phillips said:

what is it they say about the British. Stiff upper lip.

Nothing stiff about what Mars looked like to be last night, more like molten jelly......🙄

[neil phillips]

1 minute ago, geoflewis said:

Nothing stiff about what Mars looked like to be last night, more like molten jelly......🙄

Lol Need a stiff drink after that 😉

Edited November 25, 2022 by neil phillips