{"id":55,"date":"2012-04-17T10:08:49","date_gmt":"2012-04-17T10:08:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cantabsoftware.co.uk\/astrodb\/?p=55"},"modified":"2012-04-17T11:03:54","modified_gmt":"2012-04-17T11:03:54","slug":"mars-27-march-2012","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cantabsoftware.co.uk\/astrodb\/?p=55","title":{"rendered":"Mars 27 March 2012"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After re-installing the latest version of the DMK IC Capture software, the camera has thankfully settled down. This is my first attempt at Mars with RGB Astronomik filters and a DMK mono camera. I have a lot to learn!<\/p>\n<p>I\u00a0 know its not stunning but there&#8217;s big learning curve to get this far, so I am hoping I can improve on this. There were 3 x 60 sec video files (avi) at 60fps, so about 3600 frames each. Processed with registax 6 and wavelet enhancement. The resulting RGB images were aligned manually in Photoshop using the difference feature of adjacent layers and finally added to the RGB channels of the final image.<\/p>\n<p>Orion Optics VX14,\u00a0(f4.5 with x5 Televue Powermate = f22.5)\u00a0and Losmandy Titan<\/p>\n<p>I think the overall quality of the image is very dependent on the &#8216;seeing&#8217; and the &#8216;seeing&#8217; and definitely the &#8216;seeing&#8217; &#8211; not to stress the &#8216;seeing&#8217; quality too much of course \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p>Mars 27Mar12<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" title=\"Mars\" src=\"http:\/\/www.cantabsoftware.co.uk\/farstar\/Images\/20120327\/Set6_RGBComb-10pcB-10pcG.jpg\" alt=\"Mars\" width=\"500\" height=\"405\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After re-installing the latest version of the DMK IC Capture software, the camera has thankfully settled down. This is my first attempt at Mars with RGB Astronomik filters and a DMK mono camera. I have a lot to learn! I\u00a0 &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cantabsoftware.co.uk\/astrodb\/?p=55\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[12],"class_list":["post-55","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-astrophotos","tag-mars"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cantabsoftware.co.uk\/astrodb\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cantabsoftware.co.uk\/astrodb\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cantabsoftware.co.uk\/astrodb\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cantabsoftware.co.uk\/astrodb\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cantabsoftware.co.uk\/astrodb\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=55"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.cantabsoftware.co.uk\/astrodb\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":57,"href":"https:\/\/www.cantabsoftware.co.uk\/astrodb\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55\/revisions\/57"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cantabsoftware.co.uk\/astrodb\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=55"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cantabsoftware.co.uk\/astrodb\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=55"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cantabsoftware.co.uk\/astrodb\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=55"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}