Mars - 14 Feb 2010

I haven’t had good weather for sometime and as a result I haven’t done any imaging. Last night though proved different with clear skies and good seeing. I drug out the Takahashi Mewlon 250 and EM400 mount to capture Mars. I used a ToUcam 840K webcam to capture several .avi files and then subsequently aligned and stacked several thousand images for the final images attached. The Mewlon was not perfectly collimated so the shot could have been better.

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The weather has stunk in my neck of the woods too, so know how you feel.

Nice shot. Hopefully you can get out and capture some more before it's too small.

Clear skies,
Kevin