Hoegaarden Astronomy & Photography
As seen from Hoegaarden, Belgium. Some nice cloud formations are visible near the Arcadia region, but also around Mons Olympus, covering the north pole, and a polar band around the south pole. Solis Lacus is formidable. First time I could image this region that clear.
For the night of September 5th to 6th, predictions were not that good: clouds passing over, some jetstream that started increasing. I had the scope outside and collimated using the tri-Bahtinov on a star of the Pegasus square in the evening, it then cooled all night .
After a few hours of sleep, I woke up to see that Mars was high in the sky looking very bright & pretty next to the Moon. It was just freed up of a cloud band that barely cleared the beautiful duo.
When I started imaging, it was obvious that the seeing was fairly good. The larger albedo structures on the planet were steadily visible on the laptop screen.
The first series prooved to be the best. it was composed of
with a classic C11, a unbranded 2″ barlow, a Starlight XPRESS 1 1/4″ 7-position automated filter wheel with Baader filters, an Esatto 2″ focusser and the ASI290MM
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