Tonight everything cooperated.
CSC Clock had Dark Blue in Every Block.
1st time since i started this hobby in 2003


I will select more frames and post another picture later tonight or tomorrow.

Info:
Here it is.



Thanks For Looking

Kostian

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Nice im going to try later.

ok i re-uploaded a better picture.

stack of 25

it's up top replaced the old one

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Thank you for this image. I was using my new telescope last night (90mm Mak from Orion, old scope is broken) and decided to give it a try on Mars. Having observed it before with a much better instrument, I knew to prepare for disappointment, but I still determined to see everything that little scope was capable of delivering.

After about 30 minutes of intently observing this pale yellow-orange blob, I went inside and sketched a ball with a slightly darkened "northern hemisphere", slightly angled, very blurred. I held my sketch up next to your image and smiled this huge, goofy grin I'm glad nobody else saw.

PLEASE tell me your image has been flipped/rotated as necessary to reflect what a person would actually see through an image-corrected telescope (If not, just ignore this post - let me keep my illusions)

Sincerely,
Derrick Baumer

yes i think i did flip it. (not entirely sure)

you can see mars in almost any scope

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Indeed, you can see it with the naked eye. Whether you can discern detail on it, and to what level is the issue, and I was quite proud to (maybe?) have been able to discern an amount of detail comparable to what you've captured with my scope. I'm really just trying to find out of my sketch was anything close to "accurate" (all things considered) or if I was imagining the detail I think I saw. Thank you