First Bash at Mars

[CrazyMike]

Finally had a clear sky. Wanted to test my hacked appart logitech quickcam pro 9000 (was a rather scary enerprise and required a bodge or 2).

Focus seems slightly out, hard to get right as my mount doesnt track, defo need more practice, lols

[omneferuss]

Hi CrazyMike, looks like some good potential there.. tho maybe you went a bit "crazy" with this one ?

what scope etc did you use? You might trade a smaller size for a clearer image, and with more practise with better focus/tracking you could get some very satisfying images !

[red dwalf]

better than my first effort, i1ll put it on in a minute but you must promise not to laugh.

what size barlow if any did you use ?

[CrazyMike]

better than my first effort, i1ll put it on in a minute but you must promise not to laugh.

what size barlow if any did you use ?

3x barlow

Enlarged the image, it was alot smaller in the origional.

Scope is a skywatcher 150pl i think

Think my mount is a bit wobbly, was in a rush fighting the clids so didnt have time to get it nicely balanced.

Taken using a logitech quickcam pro 9000 i modified, cmos sensor so probably not the best.

A [removed word] without a tracking mount, i moved ahead of the planet a bit, let the scope settle, let the planet drift into view and started recording, lols

[red dwalf]

mine was with a 2x barlow, couldn`t get the image onto the webcam using a tal 3x barlow as these lense`s seem very small compaired to my 2x.

my scope was a 6" sct

what program did you use to enlarge it ?

when i try to enlarge mine it starts to pixalate alittle

[CrazyMike]

mine was with a 2x barlow, couldn`t get the image onto the webcam using a tal 3x barlow as these lense`s seem very small compaired to my 2x.

my scope was a 6" sct

what program did you use to enlarge it ?

when i try to enlarge mine it starts to pixalate alittle

well i processed the avi in registax, when saving i choose the option to enlarge to 200%

think after this in this case i used windows paint to enlarge it 300% and opended it in gimp to clean it up a little. gimp could probably help with the pixlation, but im sure there are far better programs out there.

I have a nightmare trying to find targets with cam when using a barlow lense. this was the first time i managed. the extra time i spent getting the finder scope really helped, and so now i think i should be able to practis and get more useable data.

Gonna try using wxAstroCapture - Windows and linuX Astronomy Capture to capture next time and my celestron neximage camera