From: Alan Friedman <alan@greatarrow.com>

Date: October 8, 2005 11:08:26 AM MDT

To: Astro_IIDC@yahoogroups.com

Subject: Re: [Astro_IIDC] First Astro IIDC shot

Hi Duane -

Congratulations on your first image - it looks great!

This is one of the most difficult faces of mars from a focusing standpoint. As higher contrast albedo features rotate into view you will find it easier to focus (in decent seeing). Even in this small image, you have captured nix Olympia and the cloud formation in Tharsis - both close to the shadowed (preceeding) limb on the right side of your image. Nice work with 4" of aperture.

best wishes -

Alan

Here is my first image with Astro IIDC.

http://homepage.mac.com/deal/firstmars.jpg

I couldn't get my 5x powermate to show anything, so I ended up using my Celestron 2x

barlow. Not a whole lot of magnification. I'll have to work on that. (any help is welcome)

Thanks,

Duane

Orion 100ED, 2x barlow, Unibrain Board camera.