Last Wednesday I went up to the Bumpass Hell parking lot at Lassen Natl
Park. Others were dissuaded by the high cloud cover. I set up around
8:30 and waited. There were reasonably stable views of Mars through the
clouds. It was much better seeing than at Whiskeytown the previous Sat.


Finally at 10:00 the clouds thinned enough to get some good views. I
took photos using a Nikon CoolPix 4300 afocal with a 15mm eyepiece and
a 2.5x PowerMate. You can see some chromatic abberation in the first
photo. I must have been off axis with the diagonal & PowerMate. I
didn't see the abberation at the time. The second photo is with an 80A
filter.

Enjoy!


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