Mars August 18, 2005

Hi everyone,

I got up early to image Mars, but I should have stayed in bed because of poor seeing conditions. I decided to try and see what f-ratio a 2x Meade barlow and a 2.5x powermate attached to my diagonal would give me, since I figured I wouldn't get any decent images anyway. This combo brought my scope to about f/60. I was suprised that the image came out half decent with this focal length (about 12,180mm), combined with poor seeing. Hopefully I'll have better luck tommorrow.

Meade LX90 8" SCT @ f/60
Phillips ToUcam Pro 840
Seeing 3-4/10
Transparency 3/5
Frames= 504/1806 @ 10fps
Taken at 8:46 UT on August 18, 2005

Thanks,
Ed Roach

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That's a very respectable image, Ed.
Now you can dream of what you'll get when the seeing improves.

dan kowall

Hi Ed,

For the seeing conditions a very nice image, glad you got up to image Mars, sleeping is over rated anyway

Thanks,

Wes Higgins

Frustrating isn't Ed, coming early out bed and then finding it's soso, but for the conditions a good image and nice color
best wishes Jan

Thanks everyone for your nice comments. I hope to get some decent conditions later this week for some lunar imaging.

Thanks,
Ed Roach