South is up in this image, more info below.




            
 This is my best shot the planet centered
            on Syrtis Major yet. My previous effort, was not even close due
            to a continual battle with extremely bad seeing. For this evening,
            the seeing was about 5 arc seconds FWHM, still not great, but
            allowed me more details to be discerned on the disk. Also, this
            is with my new USB DMK camera which is a huge step up in image
            quality from the older web cams.

            
Processing: 300/1000
            best frames,  alignment in Registax, Wavelets in PixInsight Pro,
            Levels and Contrast adjustments In Photoshop CS3.

Instrument:  12.5" f/5 with 5x powermate Barlow
Platform:  Astrophysics AP1200
CCD Camera:  Image Source DMK 31AU03.AS
Filters:  Hoya R72 + CS RGB
Exposure:  1/15 - 1/30 sec  15fps
Location:  Payson, Arizona
Elevation:  5150 ft.
Sky:  Seeing Average, Transparency 8/10
Outside Temperature:  32F