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Started by RolandC, 06/25/2014 11:34PM
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Roland Christen
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Same equipment as the Saturn shot. Mars is now only 9.8 arc sec diameter and gibbous at 88% illumination. Stack of 4500 frames.

Rolando

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Posted 06/26/2014 06:35AM #1
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Magnifico Lorando.
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As usual, very cool!

FWIW, in the "fishing with light tackle" category, here's a shot of Mars with my 1968 Questar 3.5, taken a few weeks ago.

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Paul

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Looks better than the other Mars shot in this post 8)
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