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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