Unfortunately the viewing with the eyepiece was nowhere near as good as the processed image, with or without filters, I could barely make out the poles and the only real surface feature visible was the Mare Cimmerium and Mare Siremun. Andrew Andrew Cooper ---------------------------------------------------- http://www.siowl.com Stan Gorodenski wrote: >This is about the way it looked visually up here at Dewey, near >Prescott, last night. As an aside, as much as red filters are >recommended for observing Mars (and I know different filters are used to >observe different features on Mars), the one I find that gives me the >best "Gawking" image is a yellow filter in conjunction with a polarizing >filter. >Stan > >Andrew Cooper wrote: > > > >> <>I set up in my back yard again last night to enjoy Mars near >> opposition. Seeing was not great with a high frequency fuzzing of the >> image. Despite this I managed a decent image, mostly due to improving >> my knowlege of Registax. >> >> Andrew >> >> http://www.siowl.com/dropbox/Mars200511060652.jpg >> >> >> Andrew Cooper >> ---------------------------------------------------- >> http://www.siowl.com >> >> -- See message header for info on list archives or unsubscribing, and please send personal replies to the author, not the list.