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Mars August 16, 2007

Started by SunSpot51, 08/17/2007 04:01AM
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Paul Maxson
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Hi all,

Finally had some clear skies this morning! Seeing wasn't great, but not terrible. I shot two runs of Mars about an hour apart. Of course we had dust storms roll through the valley tonight and even if it is clear tomorrow, seeing probably won't be good. Ah well....

http://web.gccaz.edu/~pmaxson/Mars/May-June07/2007-08-16-PWM.jpg

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Posted 08/18/2007 03:31PM | Edited 08/18/2007 04:53PM #1
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Hi Paul, well done, nice resolution. I see that Mars is going to be as high as it ever gets this year (plus 26 degrees declination).
That means some of the guys will be posting the sharpest images ever taken of the red planet, boy I can't wait.
I see you're doing some red light imaging in order to boost resolution. I tried it back in early June, here's the same side of Mars at 5.9", before the dust storm.
I used an "Orion" H-Alpha nebular filter, this was taken 3 hrs. after sunrise. 10" SCT at f/20, SPC900NC. Thanks for posting. Cheers, Dan smile

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