Wednesday, February 3, 2010

AAPOD - February 3, 2010

I am glad and proud I made it again: one more AAPOD (http://astronomy.fm/)!



JC/2010

Mars, Feb, 1st, 2010 f/30

Before seeing deteriorated, I was able to snap this Mars.
Stack of some 800 frames per R&G channel and 600 B.
C11 @f/30
Registax 5 & CS4.
Seeing 5/10.


JC/2010

Tuesday, February 2, 2010

Mars, Feb, 1st, 2010

Seeing has gotten a little better and allowed for a couple of tries at f/30.
First off, I didn't push hard to f/30 but rather to f/20.
It looked promising and seeing was quite nice for my local standards - 6 story roof top building, with scattered fireplace chimneys, though none was burning at the time.
I got the following picture, a stack of some 1000 frames per channel, in Registax and CS4.



Since it looked so nice, I tweaked collimation and pushed up to f/30. Boy, I could see fine detail on the R channel image on the laptop screen. I was glad that it was worth the waiting... only to become evident that seeing was only getting worse...
This is the best I was able to get, just some 50 minutes later...
C11 @f/30, DMK21AF, RGB Astronomik IIb
Registax & CS4.


Got to keep waiting for better skies...
JC/2010