Mars 19 Sept excelent seeing

First day of clear sky in about two weeks and its Friday so out I go.

Seeing 6+/10 and transparency good, very still air.

6 inch F8 Dob with 9 mm plossl , 2x barlow with afocal Sony handycam at about 7x optical zoom.

Mars at 61.2 degrees 2003-9-19-12:09 CM 311.56

AVI processed in registax. allignment on R channel. Best 152/314 and RRGB on the wavelet page. Only slight colour adjustment after registax. I tried an unsharp mask but it made the image look worse.

Thanks for looking

Mike Ashburn

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Astounding. We are most certainly in a new imaging era!