To the Moon, Alice!

Last night I brought out the telescope because Mars is close to opposition, and it’s very close to Earth, too. So if skies are clear, conditions are right for some excellent views of the red planet.

While I did take some pics of Mars last night, the video was blown out so the planet looked like a blob of white. However, the moon was not far away so I took some stills and then switched the camera, a Nikon D5100, to movie mode and shot some video. I took the result into Pinnacle Studio to chop, and then imported that result into a program called Registax (http://www.astronomie.be/registax/).

While the stills looked pretty good, the lower-resolution video (1920×1080 FHD versus 4928×3264 NEF) stacked came out better, I think. See for yourself!