This is an image of Mars taken last night with the 14 inch. The camera was an ASI 120MM. I took 2000 frames of Red, Green, and Blue channels. Seeing was horrible, but the polar cap is clearly visible at the 11 o'clock position as is atmospheric cloud.
The trials, tribulations and small triumphs of a Charlotte, NC astronomer imaging under Bortle 8/9 skies.
Sunday, April 20, 2014
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The Horsehead Nebula
This image of the Horsehead Nebula consists of just over 4 hours of total integration time. Stacked and processed in Siril, GraXpert, Affini...
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I had a couple of emails asking how to defork an ETX telescope. The ETX 90 and ETX 125 were optically superb scopes, but the mounts left a...
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After a long break due to an extended period of cloud and rain here in the Carolinas, I was finally able to get some imaging time. As it...
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To add insult to injury, not only are the skies cloudy, but it is snowing. The forecast is that it will end by noon, but I'm not hopefu...