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Making Progress on Mars, Steve Lantz

Making Progress on Mars

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This is an RGB image taken with an OSC camera because I can't afford a mono camera yet! But it is all good practice. I took 25 second videos at about 50 fps with a 10-inch Newtonian. In total, I shot 32,500 frames and used about 10 % for the final image. This image handled enlargement better than my previous efforts. I think the primary mirror in the telescope needs a bath because there's quite a bit of dust from a long, long time without cleaning. For those of you who don't have experience with cleaning a mirror in a Newtonian scope and then reinstalling it and re-collimating the scope, suffice it to say that I'd almost rather bathe a wild, angry wolverine!

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Making Progress on Mars, Steve Lantz