First attempt at Mars in a little over 2 years.  Conditions were not very good, high thin clouds kept causing me problems, and I'm sure the scope needs collimation.

First image is using a 2X barlow with the Toucam and C8, the next two are using eyepiece projection using a 25mm and 18mm eyepiece respectively.

November 6th, 2005  02:45:00 UTC (21:45 EST Nov 5th)

C-14, LE modified Neximage, 51x1sec exposures.  Seeing was not very good, 1/5.

Prime focus image of Mars overlaid on top of overexposed Mars.  Cartes du Ciel image for reference.

Mars captured with a C8 + IR block + 2X barlow in Eyepiece Projection mode.  Stacked in K3CCDtools, wavelets in Registax3.

The first image was captured at 5fps.  600/1000 frames used.

The second image was captured at 10fps.  800/1500 frames used.

Mars captured with a C8 + IR block + 2X barlow in Eyepiece Projection mode.  Stacked in K3CCDtools, wavelets in Registax3.

1000/1800 10fps               1000/1500 15fps               Same as first image, just different color processing

C8 with a Toucam 740k, no filters. The two smaller images are using a 2X barlow in EP projection mode.  The larger image is a Celestron 10mm SMA eyepiece in EP projection.  I think this is pushing it a bit too far.  K3CCDtools , Registax3, and PSP7.

The images have not been resized.

C8 with a Toucam 740k, no filters. The  images were captured using a 2X barlow in EP projection mode.   K3CCDtools , Registax3, and PSP7