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RE: The 2018 Martian Global Dust Storm
Excellent and informative read, Terry :-)
Unfortunately, I must wait for the next Mars opposition. But then I hopefully own an instrument with more aperture and focal length.
The C14HD is a very impressive telescope.
I do not want to imagine what it takes for arms to be able to take pictures of the sports match with this monster. :-D
Thanks Kevin, the next opposition of Mars will be a bit more distant for this one but I guess it will also be higher in the sky for you.
You're welcome Terry :-)
In any case, there is still enough time to get a bigger telescope and to practice the imaging of planets. The height in the sky is always a problem. The closer to the horizon the more disturbances.
Even at 45 degrees up I notice several pixels of dispersion of the Red, Green and Blue image planes as well. So I find I have to realign the color channels at the end of processing.
I have the "luck", that I have some other houses around me, so I can not so close to the horizon. Fortunately, I had no shifts between the colors until now. But I think that will be due to the short focal length and the relatively slow telescope