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Some quite nice seeing last night, if cold and exceedingly dewey! 

This is a straight RGB capture, 3 mins per channel and best 30% stacked for each. The resulting 3 stacks were then derotated together in winjupos to create the colour image. 

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Posted by: @CraigT82

Some quite nice seeing last night, if cold and exceedingly dewey! 

This is a straight RGB capture, 3 mins per channel and best 30% stacked for each. The resulting 3 stacks were then derotated together in winjupos to create the colour image. 

AS3 > registax > winjupos > gimp

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Wow, they're really nice. I can't get over how much Mars looks like a marble, really pretty!

 

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Posted by: @Luke

Nice images. Do you think derotation gives much of an improvement? I can understand it's necessary with Jupiter's fast rotation, but wouldn't have thought Mars moved fast enough.

Thanks. For this capture, not much at all. During processing I always compare a derotated image and a non derotated image image for comparison to see which one yields best results. In this case I preferred the derotated image but there wasn't much in it.

To be methodical about it it's fairly easy to calculate how long you can capture for before rotational smearing affects the image. You just need to know the rotational speed of the planet at the equator, the planets distance, the size of you pixels and your focal length.

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