Mars - 30oct2020 - 23:48 PDT/06:48 UT (dswtan)

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Mars - 30oct2020 - 23:48 PDT/06:48 UT

Acquisition type: Lucky imaging

Mars - 30oct2020 - 23:48 PDT/06:48 UT

Acquisition type: Lucky imaging

Significantly improved my collimation technique in recent days, which sets me up much better for future apparitions. Can confidently do longer sessions now, up to 40k frames from 10k. I now check on a star every session.

Also refined capture settings to 4ms at 250g from 8ms at 200g, and moved to RAW8 from RAW16 with no apparent loss and half the file sizes. FPS is now at 148 up from 125. Still at 800x600, which is good at my f/25 imaging scale on the C11.

Now working on my processing. I'm getting the disk color that I like (or thereabouts, still thinking about this one), but can't seem to get that nice pale blue cloud that others seem to get. Will keep trying!

No Topaz Denoise AI on this one.

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Description: Got some help with the color from the CloudyNights community - thank you! Main trick was to use RGB Balance in Registax, which at first looks awful there, even though I used it usefully in past Jupiter and Saturn processing. Of course with Mars, being more single-color dominated, the initial result there is deceptive. Learned a bunch of Color Balance, Gamma, etc. in PhotoShop is get back the red (Registax tools are there but the UI is buggy and less reliable) -- but also, YAY, the pale blue clouds. Mission accomplished. Thanks guys and gals of CN!

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