Mars

3.5"Q,2x-Barlow,1.5xBarlow,Swivel,MX916 04:40-04:46 UT, best 370/400, 0.1 seconds 3.5"Q,2x-Barlow,1.5xBarlow,Swivel,1.75"Ext,MX916 04:53-04:59 UT, best 390/400, 0.1 seconds 3.5"Q,2x-Barlow,1.5xBarlow,Swivel,1.75"Ext,MX916 05:04-05:07 UT, best 185/200, 0.1 seconds 3.5"Q,2x-Barlow,1.5xBarlow,Swivel,1.75"Ext,MX916 05:11-05:17 UT, best 93/100, 0.1 seconds 3.5"Q,2x-Barlow,1.5xBarlow,Swivel,1.75"Ext,MX916 05:22-05:25 UT, best 196/200, 0.03 seconds 3.5"Q,2x-Barlow,1.5xBarlow,Swivel,1.75"Ext,MX916 05:38-05:45 UT, best 496/500, 0.03 seconds

From Mars Previewer II: Expected appearance at 05:00 UT

About 4:00am EDT July 20, 2003.
3.5" Questar axial port -> 2x Barlow -> 1.5x Barlow -> SwivelCoupler -> 1/2" Ext -> 16mm Brandon -> 1/4 Ext -> Digi-T -> Olympus D-490 digital camera.
Best 153 out of 225 frames captured in camera's "movie" mode.
Images stacked using Registax.

4:09am EDT June 30, 2003.
PC-164C video surveillance camera on 3.5" Questar.
Q2xBarlow->Q2xBarlow->SwivelCoupler->MFU->PtoC
Combined 300x3 frames captured with VCE video capture device.
Image enhancement assistance by David Dench using ImagesPlus.

4:34am EDT June 24, 2003.
PC-164C video surveillance camera on 3.5" Questar.
Eyepiece projection: 1/2"Ext->8mmBrandon->1"Ext->MFU->PtoC
Combined 200 frames captured with VCE video capture device.
Gamma corrected (0.333).
Image enhancement assistance by David Dench using ImagesPlus.

2am June 09, 2001.
Olympus D-490 afocally coupled to 3.5" Questar
/w 12mm Meade Illuminated Reticle eyepiece.
Extracted first 88 frames from QuickTime movie, rescaled 4x, cropped, summed, applied fft kernel filter (50%), then gamma corrected (1.2).

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