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Anyone imaging Mars? I'm getting ok results (better than 2018 after the dust storm!), but seems fuzzier than what I see from others with Edge 11 scopes. Is it the Bay Area seeing/jet stream, or local heat that's disrupting my captures, or perhaps my unreliable (?) collimation? Anyone with a 11" scope imaging locally care to share so that I have a benchmark to compare with please? https://astrob.in/p00kzp/0/ |
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Good luck... generally until last couple days had very crisp skys for my 5" refractor. Don't remind me about collimation....  ... past history...
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glenn (https://www.astrobin.com/users/dts350z/) has been imaging mars and he shared some mars images at this month's SJAA meeting but it doesnt look like he has posted any to astrobin. he had a grid of images, most of which were pretty good and one was terrible, to the extent that i asked him if that one was shown before any processing... but he said one night the seeing was just atrocious. so i guess it could just be the seeing giving you problems. https://youtu.be/d8Ib15OrQ7g?t=3577 |
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Thanks pfile, that’s perfect! (Also jerry — yeah... ;-)) I’ve definitely got better with practice on SCT collimation this apparition, more sessions, higher planetary elevation, and even doubling capture time to reduce noise. I would say I’m feeling more confident in nearing optimal for what is practically feasible for me at this point! |
