Mars Approaching Opposition

November 10, 2007

Uploaded 11/11/07




            
 
Simulated view at the time
with Mars Previewer

Here is the first night out with our new DMK camera, the seeing was as usual a meager 6 arc seconds blur, however as you can see

in the raw stacked frames below, the best 200 of 600 frames each there was some details. PixInsights wavelets made a big difference

and layering HPF data in finished the processing. Visually, the disk was a jumping jumble of blurring images, with an occasional

glimpse of the polar cap, but no disk details at all.


            

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Best Stacked Frames


            

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Best Stacked Frames


            

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Best Stacked Frames




Instrument:  12.5" f/5 with Televue 5x Powermate Barlow
Platform:  Astrophysics AP1200
CCD Camera:  Image Source DMK 31AU03.AS
Exposure:  1/15 sec  15fps
Location:  Payson, Arizona
Elevation:  5150 ft.
Sky:  Seeing Average, Transparency 8/10
Outside Temperature:  45F
Processing:  Registax, PixInsight Pro, Photoshop CS3