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On November 5, 2005 I used a Meade LX200 10 inch telescope, a web-cam Philips ToUcamPro2, a TeleVue 3x Barlow lens and a filter Baader Ir-cut.
Equipment & Processing
Image at 80% of its original size.
400 images were stacked out of 1200 using Iris, video of 2' at 10 images/s.
Processing with successive wavelets using Iris, on each R G B channel.
Post-processing with Photoshop.
The large dark areas are Mare Sirenum, Mare Cimmerium and Mare Thyrrhenum. At the top left of the globe is Elysium. Blue mist spread at the North Polar Cap. At the top right, you can see a yellow stain that reveals Olympus Mons, the largest volcano in the Solar System. It rises 24 kilometers high and measures 550 km across.
Other image, taken during the same night
Image at 90% of its original size.
300 images were stacked out of 500 using Iris, video at 10 images/s.
Processing with successive wavelets using Iris, on each R G B channel.
Post-processing with Photoshop.