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The first night only allows a short glimps to the rising Mars, then the skies are completely covered. |
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The next morning the clouds dissolve quickly and I start to prepare my 4" TMB with the astrosolar filter for imaging the sun with my webcam. The seeing is excellent, filament details and the granulation is clearly visible. Find the sun images here Only a few meters away the 5 m observatory housing the 24" f/9 cassegrain |
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At saturday evening there was a short shower and I had to trasfer my equipment to the nearby garage. Later at midnight the skies suddenly cleared up, but unfortunately the garage had been locked and I could not access my equipment. The observatory now was open and my only chance for imaging was to attach the 10D to the 24" cassegrain. The mount not tracking well, so I could take only 30 sec unguided images in primefocus at f/9. On the right you see a 2x30 sec image of M13 at ISO800. |
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The second target was M57, 4x30 sec unguided images at ISO800 gave this quite impressive result. |
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Then we had a very pleasing view of Mars, both Phobos and Deimos were directly visible. A preliminary result of Mars with the webcam you see here. |
Later on I did some tripod shots of the sky with my 10D and the 20mm lens at f/2.5. Here you see a view to the south centered on Mars (2x30 sec at ISO800). |
Here you see a view to the northeast with the rising moon (4x30 sec at ISO800). |
Here you see a view to the west with the Cygnus area above the Gerlitzen Gipfelhaus (4x30 sec at ISO800). |