Mars

2014-03-28 0 comment(s)

This is the first time we imaged Mars! Considering how low in the sky Mars is on these altitudes (58 degrees North) it was still pretty nice to see in the eyepiece. I think this picture pretty good represents how it looked thru the eyepiece. See more information here for the night this picture was taken. 60FPS with shutter 4.425ms. 383 stacks out of 3831.

Date: 2014-03-28 / 23:55:06 UTC
Location: Ekerö, Sweden
Temperature: -2 °C
Telescope: Meade LX200GPS 12" SCT
Camera: QHY5L-II-M
Mount: Meade fork-mount
Other info: Red filter
Processing: Captured in Firecapture, stacked in AutoStakkert, processed in Photoshop CS6