From: "gaffney.mark" <markgaffney@mac.com>

Date: January 28, 2008 1:27:15 PM MST

To: Astro_IIDC@yahoogroups.com

Subject: Re: Still chasing Mars!


--- In Astro_IIDC@yahoogroups.com, Ray Byrne <ray@...> wrote:


Dear Jim,


You have my sympathies I personally have had much the same.  

Surprisingly a good friend of mine who lives only a few miles away  

has had some good results with the same equipment (he uses Windows  

although that is irrelevant). What he does have is an observatory and  

moreover tenacity. I think that with the best will in the world  

anyone is not going to set-up all their gear on a horrendous night  

and sit freezing their doodaahs off in the open like I do and I know  

Alan F does.


So is an observatory the must-have accessory I think it maybe ;O 

[  will my wife let me have one in out tiny backyard NO! it's no good  

I'll have to move to a place with a decent sized garden and have an  

obbo again (mind you too late for this Mars apparition). Good luck in  

the future BTW good efforts on Mars much better than mine I'd be  

embarrassed to post mine on the web.

Alan`s using various high resolution Imaging Source cameras and a 10 inch `scope 

though isn`t he!?


On 28 Jan 2008, at 16:45, jimchung2338 wrote:


Yesterday night CSC predicted a small window of good seeing over  

Toronto around midnight

and for once it was close to being accurate. Seeing was the best it  

has been for the past 2

months and I was able to refine my collimation. The first Mars  

image was showing good

detail but about and hour later the temperatures dropped 5 degrees  

quickly and seeing

started going sour. This may be the best opportunity I have for  

this opposition.


Jim


http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/Astro_IIDC/files/Planetary/ 

Jan27Mars.jpg





ATB


Ray Byrne

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