Date taken: February 11, 2003
Location: Titusville, FL
Telescope: Meade 8" LX200 @ f/20 FL 4000mm (2x Barlow)
Camera:
Nikon Coolpix 4500, 20mm eyepiece mounted afocally, ISO 100, full optical zoom
Shutter control with TheForce, running on laptop
Focus: Used full optical and digital zoom from image on 5" B&W TV
Exposures: 35 @ 1/15 second; 22 @ 1/8 second (culled from ~250 images)
Processing:(July 13,2005)
Auto Graded; Auto Aligned; Auto Combined; MultiRes Sharpening; Bright/Contrast in ImagesPlus 2.50
Resized for web in Photoshop
Comments:
I have waited until now to process the image
for the same reasons stated in the previous image of Mars.