Mars 10/1/05, f25

Folks, I tried to fine tune my focusing this morning and took shots around 4am for a change which allowed the scope to be at a more stable temperature having been set up 6 hours earlier. Its still an improvement from my last images, but a far cry from the professional images posted here. At this point, I believe I am still limited by collimation and processing techniques. Fortunately there are still 29 days left! Waking up at 3:30, imaging for 2 hrs then going back to sleep wasn't too bad. Whats the deal with avi frame 2319? Twice on different nights exactly the same frame 2319 couldn't open - maybe it was the file size allocation?

Best 1000 frames of 2318, 1/33sec
Regards,
Steve

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Are your frames each 900k in size? If you're using colour then this is likely. That makes frame 2319 very close to the 2Gb limit if you're on a FAT32 filesystem.

regards, Anthony

Nicely done Steve... definitely getting better!
Looking forward to your next shots!