Mars on a Learning Curve Experiment (Steve Lantz)

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Mars on a Learning Curve Experiment

First of all, let me thank all of you who gave me suggestions for imaging Mars. I now know why everyone uses Autostakkert! I'm amazed at how well it corrects for image drift and wind shudder, allowing for the stacking of images where the planet is in quite different places on the frames. Knowing what to look for in gain vs. exposure duration vs. fps vs. ROI was also quite helpful. The color in my posted images was not what I liked, so I did an experiment with RGB imaging. I had the filter wheel on my 5 inch refractor, so I imaged Mars with that system. My camera is OSC, so I knew I would be wasting some resolution, but all I really cared about was the color rendition. The conclusion: RGB works very well because the color I got was much like the good images on the forum. I took eight 30 -sec videos in each color band; the fps was about 60 with a gain of less than 100. I stacked 25, 50 and 100 % of the images in each video (about 1600 frames); then I took the best of these results and stacked them.

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Description: Visual aid to see the amazing Viking of Mars

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Description: In the spirit of levity, when I looked at a revision of the original image using WinJUPOS, I suddenly saw The Viking of Mars! The Eye of Mars has been known for a long, long time, but now we have a new feature! Of course, to see it, one needs an image that approximates the mediocre quality of the telescopes used for early observations of Mars!

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