Hi all.
I took this image of Mars some time around Oct I think. I just found the folder that I put it in but there is no date. I know I should have a better time/date system going on. That is one of my new years things to do.

I used Al Paslow's old orange celestron 8'' which has tracking motors and auto focuser, and the sac 7 ccd.

I remember it was not a very clear night and my alignment was not the best. Mars was dancing around alot but I managed to take 48 short avi's, 6,877 frames. I ran them all through registax 4 and grabed 200 good frames to play with.

I cleaned the final image up using photoshop cs2, photofilter and noiseware.

I am packing this scope up tonight and sending it back to its owner because tomorrow the Vixen VMC200L with Star book will be here. I know their is going to be a very large learning cuve going on here for a while, but I hope to have the scope up and running soon. Clear skies to ALL. Paul

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Hi Paul - that's a great image of Mars! Thanks for posting it!

Paul

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A lovely swan song image Paul. Have an absolute ball setting up the Vixen. I bet you will be posting in a week.

Kind regards
Matt

That's a nice picture.

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A great shot Paul, Lots of details and olympus mon is visible. looking forward to see some sessions with your new scope. Welldone and Clear Skies

Hi guys.
Thanks for the kind words. The Vixen came today and its up and running. The Starbook is not as complex as I first thought, but I have only played with it in the house, time will tell. This is one beefy telescope, and it feels well made, but I must say portable it is not.

Lots to read and play with before first light. Clear skies to all Paul

Nice image, you pulled out good detail and I can see the polar cap. Congrats on your new Vixen.

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Really Great Image M8. Thanx.

Dennis

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