Mars 12-31-07
I don't have a good set-up for planetary work. A mono CD is probably the worst tool for it possible. It takes about 15 minutes just to take 4 lum and 4 RGB each. By then rotation is too much to continue and you start a new set. In that time a web cam would have taken a thousand frames. The good ones stacked and the result a pretty darned good shot. But I had to pick the best out of each of 4 and just use one shot in effect. I tried three such sets. This is the best of the bunch. Also I have no way to put a barlow into the system so this is pure prime focus at f/10. Working at f/20 or more is much preferred. But you go with what you have and hope. Maybe next opposition I'll have a better system for planetary work. Taken with my 14" LX200R. I tried to process it naturally as it looked in the eyepiece without pushing contrast. This was my last shot of 2007. Or the first of 2008 if you use UT.
Rick
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