From: Milton Aupperle <milton@outcastsoft.com>

Date: October 26, 2005 9:25:43 AM MDT

To: Astro_IIDC@yahoogroups.com

Subject: Re: [Astro_IIDC] Mars moons - Phobos & Deimos

Hi Raoul;

Cool Shot.

Thanks for sharing.

Milton J. Aupperle

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On 26-Oct-05, at 7:23 AM, Raoul Schlesser wrote:

Hi,

I thought some of you guys might be interested in this image of Phobos and Deimos.

Taken with a 9.25" SCT, and a DMK 21BF04 firewire camera in its prime focus. Seeing was

horrible, so instead of trying to capture surface detail on Mars, I gave this a shot... I was

surprised how "easy" it was to capture the two little moons, the DMK camera was binned

2x2, exposures were 1/4 second each, about 200 images stacked. The 21BF04 is a very

sensitive camera, which continues to amaze me.

The image of Mars was exposed separately and inserted into the overexposed region for

scale purposes.

Raoul Schlesser