Hi all.
Could not sleep last night so I set up and did a few avi's of Mars. This is my first attempt this year to capture the God of war. At 3:00am. He was not that high in the sky but the seeing was ok. This image of Mars is a final from a 2min. avi at 1/10 of a sec 30 fps.

Taken with my etx 125 and the sac 7 with a 2x apo tele. I processed the avi in registax and then made a dark frame after the alignment. I used 3,590 frames to make this photo. As He gets closer and bigger the photos will get better. Clear skis to all Paul

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Pretty! Nice first. The angular dia. of Mars right now is only about 9 arc seconds, so I look forward to any imaging done in December when it is 70% larger and 1.5 mag. brighter.

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Lighten up! This is a stellar board! Author: duh.

"The Sun, with all the planets revolving around it, and depending on it, can still ripen a bunch of grapes as though it had nothing else in the universe to do..." Author: Galileo supposedly.

Good job, especially considering it is so small. Look forward to seeing your photos of it this opposition.

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Your on the right track Paul, Looking forward to see more of the red planet.