[Atmob-discuss] Mars early on Dec 15th

[Neil Fleming]

Great job, once again, John.

   ...Neil

--- John Boudreau <jeboud at comcast.net> wrote:

> The transparency was very poor in the late evening
> of Dec 14 into the early morning hours of Saturday
> the 15th, in fact at times Betelgeuse and Rigel
> weren't very obvious to the naked eye. However as is
> many times the case with poor transparency, the
> seeing was excellent--- at least for New England
> skies.
> 
> Here's my best Mars result for early Saturday
> morning:
> http://home.comcast.net/~jeboud/mars.htm
> 
> This was also my first imaging session with a new
> TeleVue 4x Powermate, replacing my trusty old
> eyepiece projection system. With my C11 and DMK
> camera, it results in an f/40 system, with slightly
> less magnification than the f/44 of the eyepiece
> system used for the earlier Dec 9th image. 
> 
> ---John Boudreau
> 
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