This was my first time imaging Mars this year. Seeing in the Northeast is usually poor. On the morning of the 28th near dawn, the seeing improved to allow viewing some surface details. I kept imaging with a digital camera into daylight.
Sequential Mode on the Olympus was used to take many images quickly. Images were taken in SQ2 normal quality (size 640X480). Eyepiece used was an 8.8mm Meade Ultrawide and Televue 2 inch Big Barlow with the Olympus camera zoom lens at full zoom.
This was my first time using the freeware REGISTAX to align and stack images. This software makes amazingly easy work of stacking multiple images; it is very user friendly. I used the default settings in Registax, just selected the group of images to stack and it did the rest. NEAT IMAGE was used for noise reduction.
LATEST IMAGES:
For images of Mars taken on 7/31/03
with an Olympus C2020Z and Philips Vesta Pro webcam with a 20"
Starmaster CLICK HERE
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taken at Cherry Springs 7/25-26/03 with a Canon 10D digital SLR,
Olympus C2020Z and Philips Vesta Pro webcam with a 20" Starmaster
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Mars taken at Cherry Springs 7/4-5/03 with a Canon 10D digital
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on 5/18/03 with a Canon 10D, Denkmeier OCS and 20" Starmaster
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taken on 5/5/03 with a Canon 10D, Denkmeier OCS and 20" Starmaster
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